Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - Some newspaper reports from the 1880's

The evidence appeared to cast a reflection upon a man named Benjamin Jones in the management of one of the cranes, and the jury, in returning a verdict of "accidental death", resolved to censure him for not exercising more care in the working of his crane when men were engaged near it." Cardiff Times [019] 29th July 1882.

• August 1882 - Fatal Accident - "A shocking accident occurred at Penarth Dock, on Sunday evening, to Henry Williams, a man of about 45 years of age, a native of Caernavon. Williams, who was a sailor on board the steamship Benayo, of Liverpool, had been spending the evening with a number of his shipmates at Penarth, and they were returning to the vessel at half-past 10 o'clock. In getting on board they had to cross a large light ship, the Prince Lucien, which was laying, with a pair of ballast booms moored alongside, between the Benayo and the quay wall. In passing from one vessel to the other, Williams suddenly fell between them, pitching onto one of the booms, at a depth of from 25 to 30 feet. Several of the sailors, and P. C. Nott, dock constable, immediately got down to him, and found the unfortunate man's body resting on the boom, with his head hanging over into the water. He was hoisted on to the quay, and everything that possibly could be done for him, but to no purpose, as life was extinct ; whether from drowning or the fall it is impossible to say. The corpse was removed to the dead-house." Cardiff Times [019] 19th August 1882.

• September 1882 - Fatal Accident at Penarth Dock - "Albert Bennett, 21 years of age, a navvy, better known as 'Ginger,' in the employ of Mr. T. A. Walker, contractor, for the Penarth Dock Extension Works, was standing on the railway on Saturday afternoon, in the act of lighting his pipe, when a return train of empty earth trucks was being pushed down the same line, for the purpose of being attached to a wagon, against which Bennett was leaning, when he was instantaneously jammed to death between the buffers." Cardiff Times [019] 9th September 1882.

• September 1882 - Accident at Penarth Dock - "Walter Nipper, in the employ of Mr. J. E. Billups, met with a serious accident on Monday. He is employed in the construction of a new railway bridge across the River Ely, and while engaged in his usual work a large piece of timber fell and seriously injured him. He was conveyed by a special engine to the Infirmary." Weekly Mail [067] 23rd September 1882.

• October 1882 - Fatal Accident at Penarth Dock - "A fatal accident of a most distressing nature occurred to a man named Jones, carpenter, of the s.s. Bwllfa, when lying at Penarth Dock, at six o'clock on Thursday afternoon. The unfortunate man had been at home, in Cardiff, spending the afternoon with his wife, and returned to the vessel about five o'clock. The steamer was under the tip, and had just shifted hatches. . .