Shipowners of Cardiff

Jenkins David

Description

From 1875 to the present day, the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners' Association has been the representative body for shipowners in Cardiff and other Bristol Channel ports. This study looks at some of the most representative periods in its history: the reaction of the Association to the proposal to build new docks in Barry in the 1880s, the Seaman's Strike in 1911, and the schism which split the Association in 1912-14. David Jenkins also reveals that a barrage across the estuary of the rivers Taff and Ely was first proposed as early as 1920. Nothing came of that proposal, but in 1929 a similar scheme was once more under consideration, comprising a dam with two locks across the tidal channel, between Penarth Head and Queen Alexandra lock.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Inglaterra
• South Wales
• 20th century
• Great Britain
• History
• England
• Somerset
• Bristol
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783160167
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

Extrait

Shipowners of Cardiff

A CLASS BY THEMSELVES

1 Members of the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners’ Association pictured after their Annual General Meeting on 18 July, 1997. From left to right; David Jones, Douglas Reid, Hubert Wilson, Philip Thomas, Stuart Reid, David Jenkins (secretary), David Ellis (Chairman), Hugh Williams, Andrew Bell (Vice-Chairman), Andrew Reid, Desmond Williams, Tony Bevan. Unable to be present was Richard Williams. (Ronald Turner Photography, Cardiff)

Shipowners of Cardiff

A C L A S S B Y T H E M S E L V E S

A History of the Cardiff and Bristol Channel Incorporated Shipowners’ Association

David Jenkins

© David Jenkins, 2013

First published, 1997

New edition, 2013

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to The University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-0-7083-2647-3

The right of David Jenkins to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Typeset by Hewer Text UK Ltd, Edinburgh Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire

This book is dedicated to Cardiff’s remaining shipowners

Cardiff is not only a coaling and shiprepairing port, but a considerable shipowning centre as well. Her shipowners constitute a class by themselves. They are fully imbued with the spirit of the old-time merchant adventurers and will not lightly brook any interference with their plans. Cardiff, 1921(Syren and Shipping, London)

In Cardiff at dawn the sky is moist and grey And the baronets wake from dreams of commerce, With commercial Spanish grammar on their tongues; And the west wind blows from the sorrowful seas, Carrying Brazilian and French and Egyptian orders, Echoing the accents of commercial success, And shaking the tugs in the quay . . . Idris Davies,Gwalia DesertaIII (Reproduced by kind permission of Ceinfryn and Gwyn Morris)

List of Illustrations

Preface

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1 Birth, Growth and Dissent, 1875–1918

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2 The Long Decline: 1918 to the Present Day

3 Some Reflections

Appendices

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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List of Illustrations

MembersoftheCardiffandBristolChannelIncorporated Shipowners’ Association in 1997 WoodenvesselsinButeWestDockintheearly1870s TheLlandaffin 1899 SirEdwardStockHill TheironsteamerAnne Thomas ThenewdockatBarry,1889 CharlesEllahStallybrass HenryRadcliffe ThepilotcutterSprayinc.1910 A‘Lewis-Hunter’coalingcraneinaction W.J.Tatem’sturret-deckedsteamerWellington WilliamJamesTatem EdwardTupperspeakingatPenarth,1911 W.WatkinJones EdwardNicholl ‘DameWalesfeedstheWorld!’cartoon PhilipTurnbull MembersoftheShipowners’Associationin1916 Keytothecompositeportraitof1916members SirWilliamSeager Localnewspaperreportfromthe1920s ThemotorvesselSilurian, built in 1924 FrederickJones ConstructionworkontheCardiffBayBarragein1995 DanielRadcliffe ThetrampsteamerCoryton, built in 1928 ShippinglaidupontheRiverFal JohnE.EmlynJones Badge of office of the chairman of the Association Idwal Williams J.J. Thomas SirWilliam(‘Willie’)ReardonSmith RichardG.M.Street ThemotorcargolinerSt Essylt AlanJ.ReardonSmith ColumT.Tudball Thefirst Cardiff-owned bulk carrier, theGraigwerdd Strike-boundvesselsinCardiffDocks,June1966 ReardonSmith’sTacoma Cityin 1984 PaintingcommissionedbyW.J.Tatemin1916 DesmondI.Williams DouglasC.Reid TheCeltic Challenger, sold in 1995 The RMSSt Helenaat Cape Town The ‘Confidence’ class vesselClipper Conwayat Cardiff TheCeltic Endeavourin the Nieuwe Maas, Rotterdam Artist’simpressionofthe‘Seahorse35’classbulkcarrier

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