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Revision as of 08:24, 30 June 2020
of Commercial Dry Dock, Roath Basin, Cardiff and Southampton
1881 The company was registered on 23 December, to acquire a business of dry dock owners and ship repairers.
1895 Advert. [1] The company took over additional properties, including those of the Windsor Slipways Dry Docks and Engineering Co. [2]
1900 Purchased the Woolston yard previously occupied by J. G. Fay and Co.[3]
1900 Compound beam engine powering the River Itchen Floating Bridge 'Vessel No. 9', photographed by George Watkins in 1934 [4]
1901 Shipbuilders. [5]
1904 Thornycroft's acquired Mordey Carney (Southampton). [6]
1925 Amalgamated with Mountstuart Dry Docks and John Shearman and Co (of Newport and Cardiff) to form the company - Mountstuart Dry Docks and Shearman's Co
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Owen and Co's Cardiff Directory, 1895
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
- ↑ '100 Years of Specialized Shipbuilding & Engineering' by K. C. Barnaby, 1964, Hutchinson
- ↑ 'Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain, Vol 10' by George Watkins
- ↑ Trades Directory of Wales, 1901
- ↑ The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908