View from the hold of the Manchester Renown Manchester Dockers loading steel bars onto a ship from a dock on the Manchester Ship Canal British steel products were in demand worldwide during the s due to their high quality The Renown was part of the Manchester Liners fleet which were loaded on the Manchester Ship Canal and carried Britains products worldwide The Renown was newly built when the photograph was taken in and was in service with the Manchester fleet until when it was sold to South Korea and renamed the Korean Challenger