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    Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection
    Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection
    Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection
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    Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection

    By David Jenkins

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    One of the greatest treasures in the archives of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum is the Hansen Collection, consisting of over 4500 negatives of shipping taken at Cardiff Docks between 1920 and 1975. Lars Peter Hansen, a native of Copenhagen, settled in Cardiff in 1891 and he and his third son Leslie established a photographic business in the docks; taking pictures of ships for sale to seamen and shipowners was an important part of their business. Following the retirement of Leslie Hansen in 1975, the museum purchased the negative collection. Its historical value cannot be overstated and this album is intended as a tribute to the Hansens, who through their work have bequeathed to Wales a pictorial record of shipping activity at the nation's premier port.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Wales Press
    Release dateJul 15, 2013
    ISBN9781783163229
    Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection
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    David Jenkins

    Senior Researcher. Practitioner and author and Emeritus Professor in Pathology, University of Nottingham, UK

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      Shipping at Cardiff - David Jenkins

      SHIPPING AT CARDIFF

      A typical example of Leslie Hansen’s finely composed photography; the London-owned tramp steamer Middlesex Trader arriving at Cardiff, c. 1948.

      (2090/2153)

      Shipping at Cardiff

      PHOTOGRAPHS FROM

      THE HANSEN COLLECTION

      1920~1975

      David Jenkins

      UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS

      NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WALES

      2013

      © original text, University of Wales Press and National Museum of Wales, 1993

      © photographs, National Museum of Wales

      New edition, 2013

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to The University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP.

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      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      ISBN 978-0-7083-2646-6

      e-ISBN 978-1-78316-322-9

      The right of David Jenkins to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      Published originally in 1993 with the financial support of The Baltic Exchange

      Contents

      Foreword

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      The Photographs:

      1 Cardiff’s Own

      2 Coasters and Colliers

      3 Tramps, Tankers and Liners

      4 Tugs, Trawlers and Dredgers

      5 Under Sail

      6 Navies of the World

      7 From Oceans’ Farthest Coasts

      Bibliography

      Index of Ships’ Names

      Foreword

      I am delighted that the Baltic Exchange has been able to offer sponsorship to a book that illustrates the beauty of the ships with which our members have been associated in the past. It is also a personal pleasure and an honour to write the foreword for this book since I was born in Cardiff and have worked in shipping for forty years; the subject matter therefore has a special significance as many of the ships and owners are familiar to me.

      The splendid Hansen archive provides a glimpse of times past for Cardiff. Today there are only a few shipowners remaining out of the 130 in business during the period when the port was most active, after the First World War.

      This book is a beautifully illustrated record of the numerous ships once seen at the port. Although the Hansen Collection itself has been displayed (in part) at the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum, the publication of Shipping at Cardiff brings these marvellous photographs to the eyes of many more people and offers a descriptive narrative to accompany them. I offer warm congratulations to the author, David Jenkins, and I hope that the book is a great success.

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      Acknowledgements

      The compilation of a photographic album such as this which comprises so many different ship photographs from the Hansen Collection has left me indebted to many individuals for their interest and assistance. My first thanks must go to the late Mrs Connie Hansen, Leslie Hansen’s widow; without her approval of, and enthusiasm for, the publication of this album, it would have been almost impossible for me to proceed with the project. I am deeply indebted to her and her son Leslie, who welcomed me to their home in Mousehole, Cornwall, and told me so much about the Hansen family, and in particular about Leslie Hansen’s career as a photographer. I also wish to thank all those who responded to my appeal published in the South Wales Echo, especially relatives and acquaintances of Leslie Hansen whose recollections have been most useful.

      Many friends from Cardiff’s shipping community have also been of great assistance. The principals of Cardiff’s two remaining shipping firms – the late Mr D. C. Reid of Charles M. Willie & Co. (Shipping) Ltd. and the late Mr D. I. Williams of Idwal Williams & Co. Ltd. – supplied me with information on vessels once owned by their respective companies. The late Mr John O’Donovan proved to be a veritable fount of knowledge regarding the coasters and smaller sailing vessels illustrated in this album, whilst former Cardiff tug master the late Horace Patterson provided me with much detailed information on tugs and dredgers.

      The former director of the National Maritime Museum, the late Dr Basil Greenhill, supplied me with useful information on certain sailing vessels and Mr Harold Appleyard, Mr J. J. Colledge and the late Mr Kevin O’Donoghue of the World Ship Society have also provided valuable assistance. I have relied heavily upon material already published on British and foreign shipping companies;

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