A photo taken from the Barry Island side of the dock looking over toward the Dock Offices with Barry Town distant. The number one dock is busy with ships loading coal at the tips. The works of Hodges is visible but they were probably busy in ship repair in this period; the postcard was sent from Barry during January 1917. A fine image of the past, probably just prior to WWI, from the Penarth Dock Collection plus a colourised version. [001]

The dredger 'David Davies' is moored in the foreground which was named after the deputy chairman of the Barry Company. Abaft of her (or is it him in this case?), is a fine three masted barque with its white hull and alongside a steam tug awaits. Coal is being loaded into the hold of the freighter opposite moored at the tips situated on a manmade island protruding out into the number one dock. I recall that this was called the 'tier', but after half a century since I was an apprentice at Hodges Engineering, my brain cell and I are not too sure of this statement! - can anyone confirm this for me please? [001]

The dredger 'David Davies' was built on the Clyde at the Phoenix shipyard of Fleming & Ferguson at Paisley and launched in October 1890. She was a twin screw steamer of 743 gross register tons, 180 feet long x 38.6 feet in breath but was not registered at Cardiff by the Barry Dock & Railway Company until June 1908. In 1925 she was offered for sale by the Great Western Railway Company but sadly ended her life at the breakers yard during the same year. The photograph below provides detail of her dredging arrangements. [000] [002]