ST DAVID'S PRESS

THE SAIL

OF CARDIFF BAY ii

Alan Roy Thorne

Paperback    978-1-902719-19-1  £13.99 

May 2007     128 pp

The Sail of Cardiff Bay (Volume 2) highlights the importance of the Bay Ports of both Cardiff and Penarth docks during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Volume One illustrated Bay Maidens and vessels that visited the ports and which can still be seen and visited.

Now, in this second volume, Alan Thorne provides details of vessels and voyages of mixed fortunes, and lists further Bay Maidens, including many built in the Bay Ports, some of which are still sailing and that includes one launched as long ago as 1879.

Fully illustrated, it describes some 120 commercial vessels and provides details of the ship builders and shipyards, plus dimensions, rigs and tonnages

Alan Thorne is an expert maritime historian, regular radio broadcaster and lecturer with the WEA and on the South Wales local history lecture circuit. He is the author of the books The Sail of Cardiff Bay: Volume 1 and of Placenames of Penarth: Historical and Colloquial, and of a dozen published monographs on the history of Penarth, as well as numerous newspaper articles and contributions to a range of maritime publications