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

I have established that as late as 1909 the Penarth Ship Building & Shiprepairing Company was building and launching ships from the slipway. Mr. A. H. Weeks history of the company (see : The History of the Penarth Dock Engineering Group ) records that in December 1908, the name of the Company was changed to the Penarth Pontoon, Slipway & Shiprepairing Co. Ltd.

Since the author of the document held by the National Museum of Wales is unknown and sources of information are not referenced, I have concerns regarding the authenticity and accuracy of many of the statements made within.

	1907 - An advertisement published under Ship Repairers within Cope's Directory [714] : 'Penarth Ship Building & Repairing Co Ld, Penarth dock. All classes of repairs executed with economy & despatch. Tel add : " Slipway. " Nat Tel 14.'
1891 - Wales - 'Little has been done in Wales of any note. The Penarth Shipbuilding Company launched three steamers, one of iron and two of steel, all for British owners, the total tonnage being 747 tons, and the nominal horse-power of the compound engines with which they were supplied being 122.' - Engineering [627] [716] 2nd January 1891.
1892 - 'The Penarth Shipbuilding Company, near Cardiff, launched two iron screw steamers, the one of 394 tons and of 306 indicated horse-power for Whitehaven, and the other a smaller craft of the same speed - 11 knots, for Algiers, as compared with two vessels of 747 tons in 1890.' - Engineering [627] [716] 22nd January 1892.