Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - George Wehrley - Photographer . . .

s.s. 'Ethelhilda' - First Steamer Lifted on Penarth Pontoon.

s.s. 'Ethelhilda' - First Steamer Lifted on Penarth Pontoon.
Photograph by Wehrley & Co., of 97 Glebe Street, Penarth. 

s.s. 'Ethelhilda' - First Steamer Lifted on Penarth Pontoon - Another photograph by G. Wehrley & Co., of 97 Glebe Street, Penarth.  Her port of registry was Whitby, she was of 2,902 gross tons (2,430 tons displacement) and was lifted on the new pontoon of the Penarth Pontoon, Slipway & Ship Repairing Company Limited on the 10th March 1910. In the enlargement, engineering staff may be seen working upon wooden scaffold repairing the propeller and rudder. The photograph was taken and published by George Wehrley of Penarth and the heritage postcard is held within the Penarth Dock Collection. [001] [20190929]

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