Swansea and Port Talbot Docks History

Gareth Mills' Shipping (5)


Cowans Sheldon  80 ton floating crane loading the Bantria in 1946 


50 ton floating crane loading the Clan Mactavish in 1954


50 ton floating crane loading the Hornby Grange in 1952
 


100 ton floating crane with two tugs discharging a ship in 1948


100 ton crane & the 50 ton floating crane loading the Montreal City in 1959.
 

Floating Crane loading the Wakefield in 1964.
 

100 ton & and the 50 ton floating cranes using a tandem lift to
load the Montreal City in 1959.
 

mv Jens S listing after her cargo of timber had shifted in the Bristol Channel in July 1967.
 

mv Jens S being towed into Swansea by the tugs Cambrian and Talbot.
 

mv Jens S berthed at N Shed Wharf.


45 ton Mac dumper truck being discharged from the Coventry City by the 50 ton floating crane  in 1967.


HMS Antelope paying a visit in 1981.

HMS Crossbow paying a visit in July 1953. She was scrapped at Briton Ferry in 1972.
 


HMS Anson visiting Swansea in August 1947.

 


 

HMS Boxer paying a visit to Swansea.
 


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