Cargo Ships

Cargo Ships

Varied cargo ships. Also including a look around the Ross Revenge, former home of the legendary Radio Caroline.

The Tenby Castle aground. Condemned to the breaker's yard, she was being towed to Messrs T W Ward's basin at Briton Ferry when she was swept aground by a 25 foot tide on a Sunday morning in 1960, two miles from her destination, at the entrance of the river Neath.<br />
One of the famous ‘Castle’ trawlers, the Swansea-based ‘Tenby Castle’ was built for Consolidated Fisheries in 1928 by Cochrane & Sons of Selby. She was requisitioned for war service as the minesweeper HMS ‘Sawfly’ during the Second World War, after which she returned to her base at Swansea. The ‘Tenby Castle’ was sold to Peter Hancock & Sons of Milford in 1956, and scrapped at Briton Ferry in 1960.

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The Tenby Castle aground. Condemned to the breaker's yard, she was being towed to Messrs T W Ward's basin at Briton Ferry when she was swept aground by a 25 foot tide on a Sunday morning in 1960, two miles from her destination, at the entrance of the river Neath.
One of the famous ‘Castle’ trawlers, the Swansea-based ‘Tenby Castle’ was built for Consolidated Fisheries in 1928 by Cochrane & Sons of Selby. She was requisitioned for war service as the minesweeper HMS ‘Sawfly’ during the Second World War, after which she returned to her base at Swansea. The ‘Tenby Castle’ was sold to Peter Hancock & Sons of Milford in 1956, and scrapped at Briton Ferry in 1960.

$Continuing the much-needed tradition of Lundy Island mailboats, the coaster Polar Bear took over in the 1970s and is seen here tied up at Ilfracombe Harbour.$