Cardigan Bay seen on her second visit to Southampton. Some 58,497gt with a teu of only 2,962, the idea of 3-high deck storage seems a quaint concept now. Also at the time steam-turbine powered until re-engined in 1981.

broken up Alang in March 1999, and although seeming a real dinosaur by today's standards, she had a working life of 27 years which seems unattainable by todays box-boats...

photo : passing Calshot inbound, 3 December 1972
photo : © Dr. Allan Ryszka-Onions