Group outside the Mission in Angelina Street. Mr Bowyer (front row with moustache) was the leading figure for many years. Apart from handing out soup, the Angelina street mission was somewhere where the people of Butetown could meet, children attended Sunday school, Whitson treats were organised and as part of the Christian mission, a benevolent club provided food & clothing for the destitute.
Photo published in Western Mail in 1970
Swedish registered general cargo ship.
Built as a Fort class WWll cargo ship and originally called Fort Rouille.
On July 1st, 1960, while on passage from Colombo to Mormugao in ballast struck rocks off Mormugao, Goa and broke in two. She was a total loss.
Seen here on a pontoon in Cardiff.
Built as a passenger ferry on Clydebank in 1925 for GWR for cross channel service Weymouth- Channel Islands.
Used as a hospital ship in WWll (No.29)
General cargo ship built in 1940 by William Gray & Co in West Hartlepool.
As SS Aquila was bombed and sunk in 1958 of Indonesia as part of a CIA backed operation by rebels.