Nice Article Stumps. Pictured at two shed Alexandra Dock Hull. Her last few years ran out of Hull. We nicknamed her Marks and Spencer with the ammount of cheap new clothing the crew sold to the Dockers. The Polish beer want bad either. The Baltrover also was a regular ship into Albert Dock Hull as well.

I worked on this vessels Re-fit at Geo.Clarks (1938)Ltd.in 1950.

Excellent photograph Doctor . Remember her very well on the thames and believe she was the last coal fired steamship trading to and from the Thames. She used to berth adjacent to Tower Bridge at Mark Brown's Wharf to discharge Polish Bacon and Eggs and was always refered to as "one of the Egg and Bacon Boats". If you were high up enough in a building on the Shadwell or Wapping waterfront you could see her approaching from as far away as Woolwich with a big column of black smoke giving her away. The enviromentalists would have kittens these days :-D also, she was involved in one or two "diplomatic incidents" the most famous in the late Fifties when she was stopped by the Royal Navy frigates in Sea Reach as she was suspected of having a dissident Pole aboard whohad been kidnapped in London for transfer to Poland. They actually found him . Believe it was a joint service she ran with United Baltic which had the "BALTROVER" on the Gdynia/Gdansk run with her and later that most good looking U.B.C., ship the "BALTIC SUN".

Great photo of a super little ship Allan,Cheers Ken