Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - The Cooper family of boat-builders at Penarth and Pill . .

◊ 1882 - An advertisement from Slater's Directory of 1882 : Penarth Ship Building and Ship Repairing Company, Penarth Docks, Cardiff 1882, Mr George Cooper, Manager.

◊ 1880-81 - The Butcher's Cardiff Directory of 1880-81 lists under 'Mast, Spar & Block Makers.' and 'Ship Repairers' - The Penarth Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Company Limited at Vienna chambers (Bute Docks, Cardiff) also at the Docks, Penarth. George Cooper is listed as the manager. George Cooper lives at Plymouth-place, Penarth. [132]

◊ 1882 - Patent Sealed - John Thompson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and George Cooper, of Penarth, Naval Architect, "Improvements in the construction of slipways." - The Cambrian [241] [361] 26th May 1882.

◊ 1883 - The Cardiff Times contained another reference to a Mr. G. Cooper as the former manager of the Patent Slipway Company:

'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.' Cardiff Times [019] [361] 6th January 1883.

◊ 1883 - Mr George Cooper had a part in a patent for a slipway arrangement which was documented in the 1883 Minutes of Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers [320] :

'A new method of relieving (Thompson and Cooper's patent) has just been brought out by one of the Authors, and Mr. George Cooper, the late manager of the Penarth Slipway Company, Limited. It is shown in Plate 6, Figs. 8 to 11, and may be thus described :