Retired Section Swansea Docks

Above a photo of the Fredavore arriving with a cargo of pitprops in 1924
 

ss Pareora discharging at 4 Quay Wharf in 1928
 

Blue Funnel cargo liner s.s. 'Ulysses' loading general cargo at A Shed in 1933.
 

Ellerman Line's m.v. 'City of Swansea'  loading tinplate for South Africa in 1958. Built in Glasgow, the vessel's displacement was 9,900 gross registered tons. She was eventually broken up in Taiwan in 1972.
 

Copacabana on the Graigola Wharf in 1942.
 

A scene at the North Dock basin in 1949 with SS Flora leaving a plume of smoke as it raises steam alongside the Weaver’s building, nowadays this is approximately the site of Sainsbury’s car park.
 

The Mv Averity a regular trader at Swansea in the 1950s
 

Activity Swansea 1978
 

Pictured in the lock at Swansea some time during the 1950's is the m.v. 'Wellpark', operated by the Denholm Shipping Company. Built on the Clyde in 1946 by Charles Connell & Co., she was 6,722 gross rgistered tons. Her name was changed to the 'Inver' in 1958 and to the 'Dogan' in 1962, and she was eventually scrapped in 1980. 
 

m.v. 'Wellpark',
 

mv Ostfriesland at 4 Quay 1962.