Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - The Penarth Shipbuilding & Ship Repairing Company Limited . . .

• January 1883 - Penarth Dock in 1882  - "The dock extension work has been carried on rapidly, and it is anticipated will be completed towards the close of the year. It will provide four additional coal staithes, and a corresponding number of cranes or quay berths.

At the Penarth Patent Slipway, the personnel was altered during the past year, Mr. G. Cooper, the manager, having resigned, and was succeeded by Mr. B. Munroe, formerly engineer of the works. 127 steam and 31 sailing vessels, chiefly those of a large class were received for repairs.

In addition to this work, a small paddle saloon steamer has been built, and will be launched immediately when completed. We believe she is intended as the first of a small line of boats to be run with passengers between Cardiff and Penarth.

The keel of a cargo steamer was also laid at these works, and the vessel is now in frame and partly plated. She is 120 feet in length, with a beam of 20 feet, and 9 feet of hold, and it is estimated will carry about 400 tons dead weight cargo when finished." - Cardiff Times [019] 6th January 1883.

1887 and 1891-92 - Some advertisements from trade directories for the Penarth Shipbuilding & Ship Repairing Company Limited.