Volume Four - An Era of Change, Uncertainty, Depression & War - Activity at the dock during World War II . . .

The Science Museum Group [1190] holds the following file which may be of interest : -

1944 - GWR file containing secret itinerary and delegate list for a visit to the South Wales ports on 18 and 19 May 1944, including stops to observe Merchant Navy training centre, US Army cargo ships, pontoons, landing vehicles, hospital ship, anti-aircraft guns, etc. Includes printed plans of the docks at Swansea, Port Talbot, Barry, Penarth, Cardiff and Newport. [Object Number : 2005-7522]

	1940's - Penarth's GI Brides - see also Chapter named 'The GI Bride of Cogan.'
	1940's - Bomb Damage at Penarth - some photographs and a map of South Wales.

During the period 1941 to 1945 the rôle of assistant dock master at Penarth Dock was undertaken by a gentleman named Mr. W. J. Bellamy whom, prior to the war, was the berthing master at Weymouth Quay. Click on his name link above to read the tribute to his efficient port service as published within the Great Western Magazine.