Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - Even more aspects - 1911 - The Penarth Dock of the Taff Vale Railway - Railway News Article . . .

Ship Repairing.

Every facility for docking and executing repairs of all description to the largest class of vessels is provided by the Penarth Pontoon Company, Windsor Slipway, the Mountstuart Dry Docks, and the Channel Dry Docks, and vessels going to any of these works, and afterwards loading at Penarth Dock, do not incur any additional dues. The Penarth Pontoon and Slipway Company, Limited, have a slipway for dry-docking vessels up to 300 ft. in length, a gridiron 374 ft. long and a commodious berth adjacent to their present workshops which vessels may occupy whilst their repairs are being completed. The works are situated about midway on the north side of the Penarth Dock, opening also into the Penarth Harbour.

• Steamer on Pontoon, Penarth Dock.

This Company have recently purchased a floating pontoon dock of the single-sided off-shore type. The dock is of the most modern type, and has been constructed by Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Limited, of Wallsend-on-Tyne.