Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage and legacy

Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Even more aspects - The Lloyd's Register at Penarth Dock . . .

s.v. 'Penwith'

The Board of Trade Enquiry findings into the loss of the sailing vessel 'Penwith'. [396]

The 'Penwith' of 276 tons was built at her port of registration, Hayle, Cornwall, in 1878 and was owned by David W. Bain of Portreath, Cornwall. The date of appropriation was recorded as 5th March 1878. D. W. Bain was a well known merchant and shipowner at Portreath and by 1889 is reputed to have been the richest man in Cornwall. Portreath was one of Cornwall’s earliest industrial ports and well used by the "Welsh Fleet", a great flotilla of schooners, brigs and brigantines, mostly Cornish owned and manned, which took copper ore to South Wales and returned home with engine coal for the mines of Redruth and Camborne. [1007]

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