Volume Thirteen - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - even more aspects - Articles from the Great Western Railway Magazine - 1922 - 1948 . . . .

Overhaul of dredger Robert Vassal, steam tug Primrose, and dumb hopper barges Benign and Redsand: The Penarth Pontoon Slipway & Ship Repairing Co. Ltd., Penarth Dock.

Record Coal Cargo at Penarth Dock — The largest quantity of coal ever shipped into one vessel at Penarth was loaded into the s.s. Luciston, a new vessel of 5,017 tons gross and 405 ft. long belonging to W. S. Miller & Co. The vessel arrived in the dock at 12.50 on April 17 and sailed on the evening tide of the 22nd, with 6,764 tons of cargo and 1,877 tons of bunkers — a total of 8,641 tons. The previous record shipment into one vessel was 8,428 tons.

The following was published within the December 1925 edition of the Great Western Railway Magazine [1348] [1349] : -

Docks Department - Contracts —The following contracts have been placed :—

Overhaul of steam hopper barges Foremost VI and Foremost VII : The Penarth Pontoon Slipway & Ship Repairing Co., Ltd., Penarth Dock.

Another Record at Penarth Dock - One of the vessels most frequently visiting Penarth Dock is the s.s. Ste. Adresse, belonging to Cie Générale Transatlantique, and readers of the Magazine will have noticed frequent mention of this steamer, in connection with rapid loading and quick despatch. The vessel carries coal from Penarth to Le Havre for bunkering the French liners. The steamer docked at 7.55 a.m. on September 30, and commenced loading at 9.30 a.m. By 5.0 p.m. loading operations were completed, a total of 3,984 tons 17 cwt. having been taken aboard, and at 6.15 p.m. the vessel sailed.

This created a new record for the port, inasmuch as the vessel had loaded six full cargoes of coal and sailed from the dock six times within one calendar month. The following are particulars of the cargoes :—