A 1961 view of the "Bristol Queen" under repair on the pontoon. Repair work seems to have been split between the Mount Stuart yard at Cardiff, Chas Hill at Bristol and the Penarth Pontoon & Slipway Company; maybe Penarth was cheaper in 1961. The left hand plant room of the pontoon has lost its chimney for some unknown reason. [002] [099]

Captain George Gunn's commented in his book 'White Funnel Memories' that the Underfall Yard at Bristol cast all the bearing bushes for the critical White Funnel Fleet paddle wheel shafts. They were seldom renewed but after the yard closed and the fleet maintenance work transferred to other yards such as at the Penarth Pontoon & Slipway Company. they became a persistent costly problem. They wore out more often when commercially available grades of phosphorus bronze were utilised, which in the case of the Penarth Company, undoubtedly from my later experiences there, would have been sourced at the Tubal Cain Foundry in Cardiff, since the magic formulation for the bearings died with the yard. [308]