Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - Built with Pride at the Penarth Shipbuilding Company - s.s. 'Aira Force' - 1890 . . .

	1906 - A photograph of the Lord Mayor of Bristol, Sir Alfred John Smith, stepping out of a carriage.
	John's 1897 Newport Street Directory lists : Smith, Alfred J, coal shipper & ship owner, also at Bristol ; as at 109 Dock-street, Newport. The company commenced in 1874 shipping coal from the South Wales ports, including Penarth, to Bristol.  He also owned their own colliery in the Forest of Dean and a haulage business based in Fowey, Cornwall, shipping china clay.

1908 - Towed to Swansea - Salvage Award in Admiralty Court - On Wednesday, in the Admiralty Court, Sir Gorrell Barnes (sitting with the Trinity Masters) heard a claim by the owner, master and crew of the Sound Fisher, of Barrow-in-Furness, against the owner (Mr. A. J. Smith, of Queen-square, Bristol) of the s.s. Seaforth, for salvage services rendered to the Seaforth, on September 26th last, by towing her to Swansea.

The Sound Fisher was proceeding to Swansea in water ballast, and the Seaforth to Cornwall, with a cargo of wheat. The Sound Fisher was in the Bristol Channel when she sighted the Seaforth flying a signal slowing that she was not under control. The services were admitted by the defendants. The Court awarded the plaintiffs £200 divided as follows :— £140 to the owners ; £20 to the master ; and £40 to the crew. - The Cambrian [241] [361] 13th November 1908.