20th Century - artist unknown - s.s. 'Anne Thomas' Cardiff - was built to the order of Evan Thomas, Radcliffe & Co. in 1882 states the National Museum of Wales (Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru - Amgueddfa Diwydiant a Mor) on the reverse of this postcard from the Penarth Dock Collection. [001] [120]

She was built at the yard of Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Company at Jarrow-on-Tyne and had a gross register tonnage of 1,418 and was sold to Grogstad & Co., of Norway date not known. At the outbreak of WWI in 1914, Messrs. Evan Thomas Radcliffe were the largest of the Cardiff shipowners with a fleet of 28 vessels. In that Great War, 20 of their vessels were lost to enemy action.

The Anne Thomas Steamship Co. was formed in 1833 and shareholders subscribed by purchasing a £100 share. Many of the shareholders were attracted from the North Wales area; farmers, a bank manager relative, schoolmasters, quarrymen, railway workers, woolen manufacturers and Methodist ministers subscribed alike. [468]

The advertisement below appeared within the South Wales Coal Annual of 1929 which lists the parent company of Evan Thomas Radcliffe & Co. of Baltic House, Cardiff as managers of the Anne Thomas S.S. Co. Ltd. [469]