Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - The graving dock and the growth of the coal trade . . .

	1870's - A view looking back through the graving dock entrance dating from probably the late 1860's or early 1870's. The logic being that trade was known to be slow in the early years after opening in 1865 and in this photo the dock has only about ten or twelve ships moored.
	1872 - Penarth - Dock Rates on Vessels plus a detailed coloured map.
	1877 - Penarth Harbour, Dock and Railway Company. A description of the evolution of the company taken from Bradshaw's Railway Manual, Shareholder's Guide and Directory of 1877.

A snippet from the Cardiff Times [019] taken from the Christmas Eve edition in 1881, recorded - “Penarth – Accident - A horse and cart belonging to Mr. Johns, grocer, etc., James-street, Bute Docks, was on Tuesday conveying goods on board the steamer Triton, lying under a tip in Penarth Basin. The horse and cart were left standing on the quay while the man in charge was carrying the goods on board, when the noise of the tip frightened the animal, which started at full gallop, and capsized into the basin and immediately sank. The horse was said to be worth £50. The horse and cart were subsequently raised by a diver going down and making fast a rope to the cart. The rope was attached to the steam winch on board the dredger and then hauled up on the quay by the steam crane.