Volume Three - The Pontoon Era - The Engineer article . . .

	1909 - side elevation and plan view drawings.

The lock gates were stated by the “Engineer” to be 60’ – 0” (18.3m) wide and the pontoon was 75’ – 0½” (22.9m) wide as per the drawing above! The pontoon was therefore unique in that it was built in two separate sections; the longitudinal split line is approx. 20’-0” (6.1m) from the port side and is indicated by the continuous line running stem to stern.

	1909 - End elevation of the pontoon indicating the shore connections.

It may be surmised that a great deal of preparatory masonry work was required prior to the installation of the pontoon at her berth. The “Engineer” reported that it will be a few weeks more before the berth is ready for the pontoon, in fact it wasn't until March 1910 that it was first used commercially.

I subsequently found (in August 2017) an article within 'The Marine Review' [499] [588] magazine published in October 1909 which provides further reading and interesting photographs of the Penarth floating dock, or pontoon; so I decided to append it to this chapter.