5th May 1912 - No. 5 hydraulic coal hoist under construction at Penarth Dock the work of Tannett Walker Limited.

The original of this photograph is held at the archive of the National Museum of Wales. [Museum item number : 83.170I] [629] [20180423]

In this photgraph we are finally able to identify the vessel as s.s. 'Morawitz' which was built in 1907 at the yard of J. L. Thompson and Sons, Ltd. at Sunderland. She was originally an Austro-Hungarian commercial cargo ship. Upon the outbreak of WWI in August 1914, she took refuge at Galveston, Texas, in the then-neutral United States to avoid capture or destruction by Allied forces. When the United States took control of all Central Powers merchant ships in its ports in April 1917 as it entered the war on the side of the Allies, it seized German ships and acquired all the Austro-Hungarian merchant ships in its own and other Western Hemisphere ports, although since there was no state of war with Austria-Hungary this was accomplished by purchase. Eight former Austro-Hungarian cargo ships thus became the property of the Kerr Navigation Company of New York City and renamed s.s. 'Kermoor'. In 1927 she was sold to T. E. Evans & Co. Ltd., of London, & renamed s.s. 'Purley Oaks'. The vessel was broken up in 1936 at the yard of Metal Industries Ltd. of Rosyth on the Firth of Forth, Scotland.