Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
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Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Even more aspects - The Lloyd's Register at Penarth Dock . . .

s.s. 'Swiftsure' - Report of Survey for Repairs, &c. for Swiftsure - 9th July 1880.

s.s. 'Swiftsure' - Report of Survey for Repairs, &c. for Swiftsure - 9th July 1880.

She was surveyed upon the Patent Slipway of the Penarth Ship Building and Shiprepairing Company Limited by Mr. Henry T. Tyrrell and Mr. A. E. Keydell. The reason was due to damage.

The vessel was an single screw, iron hulled steamship, of 1,927 Gross Register Tonnage registered to the Port of London. She was built at the shipyard of Messrs. Raylton Dixon and Company of Cleveland Dockyard, Middlesbrough-on-Tees and launched during July 1878. Her vital statistics were 275.0 ft. in length, 34.5 ft. in breath and she had a depth of 24.5 ft.

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