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

Campbell's, who had commenced sailing from Bristol in 1887, absorbed the red funnelled ships of the Barry Railway in 1911, and became the only company operating in the Bristol Channel. They called at Penarth Pier, but not at the dock.

Campbell's whole fleet went to war with the Royal Navy in 1914 ; Glen Usk, Glen Avon, Waverley, Westward Ho!, Cambria, Glen Rosa, Brighton Queen, Albion, Brittania, Lady Ismay, Devonia and Barry. The Brighton Queen and Lady Ismay were sunk.

From 1919 the yellow funnelled ships of Messrs W. H. Tucker entered into competition, but they ceased to operate in 1921. In 1939 the Admiralty again requisitioned the pleasure steamers ; Devonia, Brighton Queen and Brighton Belle were lost at Dunkirk, the Waverley was bombed and sank in the North Sea, and the Glen Avon sank off the Normandy Coast.

As more and more people became owners of motor cars, and the Severn Bridge made travel to the West Country much more convenient, fewer passengers travelled on those fine ships, and some such as ; Glen Usk, Bristol Queen, Cardiff Queen and Brittania were laid-up at the dock.

	Penarth Dock c.1924.
	The Docks Today (c.1984).