Lovell brought to the table a commission from the Great Western Railway on shipments made over their lines, which continued until the nationalisation of GWR in 1947.

[11] Because of the bad weather it sheltered in the lee of the shore of Dungeness and was anchored with a number of other ships during the night.

[11] On 7 April 1899 the newly built Cato was on her second voyage from Cardiff to Hamburg encountered bad weather on the north coast of Cornwall.

[13] In March 1923 the Echo was bound to Bristol from Hamburg when it hit the Portuguese ship Coimbra in the fog and sunk.

[15] The Alecto which had left Swansea for Rotterdam hit the Yugoslav steamer Plavnik during the night in fog.

[15] On 24 April 1963, the Cato was tied up alongside at Avonmouth when she was rammed by the Ellerman Line's City of Brooklyn.