Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - The Shipping World Article of June 1886 . . .

1886 : Penarth Roads.
1886 : Penarth Roads.

◊ 1886 : Penarth Roads. A lithograph from 'The Shipping World' with a view from the Pier Head at Bute Docks, Cardiff, looking south-eastwards to the Severn Sea and Penarth Head. A number of vessels await at anchor beyond the low water pier and within the Penarth Roads. The lower image has been colourised.

The article reads : 'The new coaling cranes, the joint production of Sir William Thomas Lewis and Mr. Charles L. Hunter, constitute an important feature in the Bute system of docks ; for they enable the management to load and unload a cargo with a rapidity previously unexperienced.' [701] [703]

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