Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - A History of Penarth Dock by Roy Thorne . . .

Capt. Chapin returned to the United States, and in November 1944, following duty with Chief of Naval Operations he became Deputy Director of the United States Navy's Advanced Base Office, Atlantic until 1st April 1946 when he returned to inactive duty in the U.S.N. Reserve.

From September 1939 to March 1945, the war years, Penarth Dock dealt with 9,845 vessels, 2,436,951 tons of coal and coke and 389,741 tons of other cargo. This was a total tonnage of 2,826,692 tons. [1176]