Volume Eleven - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - some more aspects - Random Rants, Notes and Articles No. 1 . . .

1879 - A Leak Stopped by a Fish - ; 'The well-known story of a dolphin having saved one of the ships of Colston, the philanthropist, by thrusting itself into a leak, lends some interest to the following paragraph, which was published in the Bristol Times and Mirror of November 22, 1879 : - A strange thing has happened to the Southella, of Hull, which left Cardiff on the 5th inst. for Port Said, with a cargo of coal. In Penarth roads it was found she was making water, and the pumps were put to work. They did not gain on the water, and the vessel returned to the East Dock on the 7th inst. There she was surveyed, and a hole was discovered on her starboard side, which had been caused by the anchor of another steamer striking her while loading in the East Dock. The hole had no doubt been stopped by an eel, which had been drawn in by suction. Eight inches of the tail-part of the fish were discovered inside the boat, and the head-part, measuring fourteen inches, was found on the outside when the vessel had been taken into Messrs. Gunn's dry-dock to be discharged. The eel, which was two inches in diameter, had probably prevented the vessel sinking at her loading berth.' - J. L. - Gloucestershire Notes and Queries [1088] [499] 22nd November 1879.

1869 - Contracts Open - Taff Vale - March 11 - For Discharging Ballast, and Tipping Coal and Coke at Penarth Dock and Tidal Harbour. By order of Directors of Taff Vale Railway, Frederick Marwood, Secretary. - The Architect [1093] [499] 6th March 1869.

An advertisement for the new Penarth Hotel published within The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette [156] [361] 14th January 1871.