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

1909 - 'Dredgenought'

The Weekly Mail [067] recorded in their 22nd May 1909 publication that a dredger was launched at Penarth:

1909 - Dredger Launched at Penarth - 'The Penarth Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Company successfully launched a large mud-hopper barge on Saturday. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. A. Beasley, Mr. S. Thomas, J.P., and Messrs. W. J. Bennett (secretary of the company) and J. J. Bryson (manager). The barge, which was built to order of the Penarth Dock Company, had the name 'Dredgenought' painted on the bow. It is 76ft. in length, with beam 25ft.'

A section of a contemporary postcard view of the western end of the Penarth Dock. Moored at the quayside is a steam bucket-dredger with a number of mud-hopper barges adjacent. I wonder if one of them be the 'Dredgenought'? [001] Up here in the West Riding of Yorkshire she would have undoubtedly been christened as 'Dredge Nowt'. In context of the local dialect : 'If thy does owt fer nowt. Always do it fer th'sen'.