Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - Petroleum-Storage Installations at Avonmouth and at Cardiff [1890] . . . .

The Institution of Civil Engineers [174] published a paper, in the period 1890-91, on the subject of the newly installed petroleum storage and processing systems at both Avonmouth and at Cardiff, or more precisely, that situated at the mouth of the River Ely at the former iron-ore wharf location - read wharf history prior to 1890's at Chapter Eleven.

The paper is predominately about Avonmouth but has significant commonality, in terms of its layout, technology and production systems, with that of the Penarth Tidal Harbour installation.

The paper, written by R. Pickwell M. Inst. C.E., is detailed and drawings indicate the River Ely installation and the text description of Avonmouth closely mirrors that at the Penarth Tidal Harbour. Many thanks to the Hathi Trust [499] but some images are missing.

Also the development of the modern oil tanker is closely interwoven with the story. The oil-tanker was a unique innovation being a design of the naval engineer, Henry F. Swan, in 1884. Numerous vessels to his design were subsequently built on the banks of the River Tyne by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Company Limited ; the first being named 'Glückauf'.

	1886 - The s.s. 'Glückauf' (Good Luck) tanker, was reputed to be the first purpose built oil-tanker in the world!
	1890 - The first cargoes of bulk oil imported from Russia and Philadelphia were landed and processed at the Penarth Tidal Harbour during July and August 1890.