Alexandra Dock - The New Lock Entrance Under Construction.

Notice the middle gates. Source: "The Alexandra Docks Newport", 1914, Published by authority of The Alexandra (N & S W) Docks and Railway Co., Newport, Mon.

German SS Waffenstillstand Armistice

Postcard. "German SS Waffenstillstand lying in Alexandra Dock Newport Mon. Handed over to the Allies." "Waffenstillstand" is written on the centre of the side of the ship with "Armistice" underneath. (Armistice is a straight translation of Waffens...

North Dock - Messrs. the Barry New Dry Docks Co., Ltd., Newport.

Source: 'Newport Year Book 1902' published by the Newport Chamber Of Commerce.

'Vivian Jolliffe' screw tug built by messrs. Mordey, Carney & Co., Ltd.

Source: 'Newport Year Book 1902' published by the Newport Chamber Of Commerce.

'Mary' Dry dock - Messrs. Mordey, Carney & Co., Ltd.

Source: 'Newport Year Book 1902' published by the Newport Chamber Of Commerce. David Hall has sent us the following information: "The Four masted Barque in Photo No 1247.Is the 'Oceana'. She is in Mordey Carneys Dry Dock, the 'Mary'. In for a ...

Nicholas & Co., Ltd.

English and foreign timber and slate merchants. Steam planing, moulding and turning mills, Baltic Wharf and Alexandra Dock, Newport. Source: 'Newport Year Book 1902' published by the Newport Chamber Of Commerce.

Newport National Shell Factory Operation 1, 2, 3. Dec. 1916.

Pete Strong has contacted saying: "Pictures 1278, 1560 and 1561 could be the National Shell Factory at Maesglas. They made 60 pounder shells. The screw caps for them were made at C.H. Bailey's Tyne Engineering Works at the docks."

Board of Directors of the Alexandra Docks and Railway Newport 1914

Sir Henry Mather Jackson, Bt. (Chairman); the Rt. Hon. Lord Tredegar; Leolin Forestier-Walker, Esq., JP; Lieut.-Col. H.E.M. Lindsay, CB, RE; Stanley Baldwin, Esq., MP; W. Bailey Hawkins, Esq.; E. Steer, Esq., JP. Source: "The Alexandra Docks, Newp...

Coal Hoists, Town Dock, Newport 1914

In 1914 Newport Town Dock was equipped with four coal hoists, three of which were 'modern' steel structures having a lift of 35 ft. above quay level, and designed to deal with loaded coal wagons of a gross weight of 23 tons. Source: "The Alexandra...

Two Moveable Hoists, North Dock, Alexandra Docks, Newport

Source: "The Alexandra Docks, Newport" published 1914

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