Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Barry Graving Dock and Engineering Co

From Graces Guide

of Barry Dock, Cardiff

1889 The company was registered on 8 April.[1] The company had a capital of £110,000, and proposed to purchase, lease, construct, or maintain graving docks, premises, etc. at Barry, and to trade as shipbuilders, engineers, and dry dock owners.[2]

The company's first graving dock could accommodate 4 vessels simultaneously

By 1898 2183 vessels had used the dock.

1898 The company constructed a new single graving dock alongside the original double dock.

1961 Ship repairers, iron founders and dry dock owners. [3]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  2. South Wales Daily News 15 April 1889
  3. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE