- R12/1122/3/6
- Eitem
- 1932
R12/1122/3/6.
Port of Many Ships: A Cardiff Feature Programme by Dorothy Eaves.
First broadcast: 1932.
Children's radio programme originally recorded for The Children's Hour.
UID: Unknown.
Typed Script with written annotations.
Set in Cardiff Port. An older sailor tells a younger sailor stories of what he has seen in Cardiff Port over his life time. Bute East Dock was opened in 1855. He saw soldiers going off to many wars: Crimean war, Indian Mutiny, Boer War and the Great War. He recalls the importance of the railway to the port. He has experienced ‘pirates’ on the Storm King, and sighted a ‘submarine’ when on board the Hannah Jane in 1915. He saw the Terra Nova sail away in 1910. The two men then discuss other heroics that go unsung.
Subjects: Sailing, Ports, Cardiff Port, Sailors, War, Terra Nova.