Shipping at Cardiff

Jenkins David

Description

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.

Sujets

• Transportation
• 20th century
• Wales

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781783160150
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

Extrait

SHIPPING AT CARDIFF

A typical example of Leslie Hansen’s nely composed photography; the London-owned tramp steamer Middlesex Traderarriving 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

The right of David Jenkins to be identied 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 nancial support of The Baltic Exchange

Typeset by Hewer Text UK Ltd, Edinburgh Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire

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

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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 signicance 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 ofShipping at Cardiffthese brings marvellous photographs to the eyes of many more people and offers a descriptive narra- tive to accompany them. I offer warm congratulations to the author, David Jenkins, and I hope that the book is a great success.

P ETER T UDBALL C HAIRMAN , THE B ALTIC E XCHANGE 1993