THE BUTE DOCKS COMPANY.
THE MAROUESS OF BUTE, K.T.
SIR WILLIAM THOMAS LEWIS.

-The Bute Docks are acres in extent, and will accommodate the els afloat. The entrance to the Docks is safe and well protected, and roadstead affords the best shelter, with excellent anchorage ground. NERY and APPLIANCES of the most improved type. The Patent r Movable Coaling Cranes enable a vessel to load and unload at re hatchways simultaneously. These Cranes have shipped into one 7 tons in 20 working hours. HOUSES and TRANSIT SHEDS.—Good accommodation for the rain, Provisions, &c., &c. Bonded and Free. F SPACE and YARDS. --Large Provision is made for Stacking Is, Iron-ore, &c. Timber Ponds 28 acres in extent, with competitive Imunication to all parts. ITIES FOR SHIP REPAIRS, &c.—There are Eight Private Graving

Docks, ranging up to 600 feet in length-with Separate Proprietaries, Public Graving Dock, 600 feet in length. Also several Marine Firms; thus giving Shipowners an opportunity of obtaining tenders every description. TAY ACCOMMODATION. - Cardiff is the Natural Port for

and the lutland District, as the London and North Western, d Great Western Railway Companies have direct communication from

CHARGES.—These are much below the average of our Great Ports. zenerally procure an outward cargo to any Port in the World, thus Bute Docks an advantage for Imports, as Vessels do not require to

Tons.

-The Bute Docks were opened in the year 1839, and the Imports are as follow :Imports. Exports.

Total Year.

Tons.

Tons. 1840

451
45,591

46,042 1860

206,135 2,019,845 2,225,980 1880 1,041,313 5,249,824

6,291,137 1,538,930 8,161,588 9,700,518 Cattle Importation.—The Bute Docks are the only Docks in South

ve permission from the Eoard of Trade to land Foreign Cattle. Excellent Cattle Lairs and Slaughter Houses are erected adjacent to the wharf in the deepest water dock, with Railways leading into them, having communication with all parts.

Cold Storage.--Good accommodation is provided for the storage of dead meat, &C. IS OF CARDIFF.-Cardiff now occupies the position of being the n the United Kingdom for Shipping cleared to Foreign Countries and essions, and the Premier Port in the World for the Shipment of Coal. -The Bute Docks are the only Docks situated in the Town of Cardiff. using the Bute Docks thereby save their Owners and Captains from

in making journeys between their l'essels and the Merchants' and ces, Banks, Custom House, Post Office, &c., &c.; all of which offices to the Bute Docks. lest information on all matters will be readily given on application to BUTE DOCKS COMPANY, CARDIFF.

"Swansea, you may depend upon it, is destined to become the Ocean Port

of England."-Sir H. HUSSEY VIVIAN, Bart., M.P.

SWANSEA.

The Dock accommodation at Swansea consists of the North, South, and Prince
of Wales Docks, all supplied with the most modern Hydraulic Machinery, and
appliances for Discharging and Loading Cargoes of every description, and fitted
throughout with the Electric Light

The Prince of Wales' Dock, constructed for vessels of the largest burthen,
possesses one of the largest and deepest Locks in the Bristol Channel. The
Docks are surrounded by more than twenty miles of Railway, the property of the
Harbour Trust, connecting the Docks with each of the great Railway systems,
viz., the Great Western, London and North-Western, and Midland. The Quays
upwards of three miles in length, are furnished with 40 Hydraulic and Steam
Cranes, and 21 Hydraulic Coal Tips.

The Number of Vessels which entered and cleared in 1889 was 9,280, of 2,603,333
net register tons. The increase in the net Tonnage cleared, compared with the
year 1879, was no less than 70.02 per cent., and of Steam Tonnage in the same
period 200'15 per cent.

The total Trade of the Port in imports and exports in 1889 amounted to
2,793,217 tons, of the estimated value of £11,036,754. The Tonnage of Imports
shows an increase of 48'00 per cent., and of Exports 80'92 per cent., whilst the
Gross Revenue resulting from the foregcing discloses an increase of 78'24 per cent.,
compared with the corresponding figures for 1879.

The quantity of Copper smelted in the Local Works in a year is about
21,000 tons, of the value of £1,631,250 ; Steel, 500,000 tons, of the value of
$2.500,000. The Spelter, or Žine, manufactured in Swansea forms 19'20th of the
whole production of the Kingdom, of the total value of £. 500,000. One year's make
of Tin and Terne Plates in the neighbourhood of Swansea is about six million
boxes, valued at £4,000,000 sterling. The total shipment of Tin Plates at
Swansea in 1879 was 423,000 boxes, weighing 26,438 tons, which had increased in
1889 to 3,123,348 boxes of 196,396 tons weight, of the value of £2,749,544. The
manufacture of Chemicals, Patent Fuel, Welsh Woollen Goods, and Railway and
Engineering Plant are also among the Staple trades of the Town and Port.
There are over 140 Works of 36 varieties, employing upwards of 30,000 hands,
within a radius of four miles from Swansea Harbour.

By the completion of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, Swansea is now
the nearest Port to the celebrated Rhondda Valley, and the coal known as
" Cardiff Coal" can be shipped at Swansea under the most favourable conditions.
In addition, the line also passes through the Avan Valley, a virgin coal field, to
which shippers are already directing their attention in view of the partial exhaustion
of the older Rhondda Workings. This Valley lies between Swansea and the
Rhondda district, and is therefore many miles nearer to Swansea than to Cardiff
or Parry.

The Mumbles Lighthouse Signal Station is connected with the Post Office
system of Telegraphs. Vessels calling for orders can communicate with their
owners without lowering a boat-good and sheltered anchorage being found under
the Mumbles Head at any state of the tide free. Registere1 Telegraphic Address :
“Swansea Bay Signal Station."
For information on any point connected with the Port and Harbour apply to

JOHN DIXON,

General Superintendent.

Registered Address of Telegrams: "Dixon, SWANSEA."

N.B.—TOWN DUES and BRIDGE TOLLS now abolished.

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This is the fifth issue of the “ Shipping World Year Book." Important additions and improvements upon former editions have been made ; and the present volume contains THE TARIFFS OF ALL NATIONS, AND OF THE COLONIES, completely revised up to November 15th; The FIRST COMPLETE PORT AND HARBOUR DIRECTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES ever published, and A DIRECTORY OF THE PRINCIPAL PORTS OF THE WORLD, giving Accommodation, Charges, Tides, Trades, Pilotage, Towage, and Officials; with all necessary information required by Masters, Engineers, and Merchants.

The book also contains, with other information :Almanack, Admiralty Notes, Agreements, Astronomical Definitions, Balance Sheet of Commerce, a list of British Consuls abroad, and of American Consuls in the United Kingdom ; a Table of Consular Fees, Digest of Shipping Acts, Documents required for Clearing Ships, Engineering Notes, Information regarding the Examination of Masters and Engineers, Foreign Moneys, Weights and Measures, Foreign Mails, Freights, Imports and Exports, Instruments of the Weather, Lighthouses, Load-Line Tables, Measurement of Ships, Merchant Shipping Act (Digest), Navies of Europe, Pilotage Laws, Public Debt of Foreign Countries, Powers of the Board of Trade, Postal Information, Rates of Freights, Removal of Wrecks, Sailing Rules, Shipping Terms (Commercial), Stamp Duties, the Suez Canal, Trade Statistics of the most recent dates, valuable scientific information, specially prepared tables, calculators and guides for men engaged in Commerce and Navigation.

The Pilotage and Towage rates are included in the Port Directory instead of under separate headings, thus enabling the reader to have at once before him all the information concerning each port.

We have again to make grateful acknowledgment to many of our subscribers, to the various port authorities of the United Kingdom and the Colonies, and throughout the world, and to Her Majesty's and the United States. Consuls abroad, for excellent and ungrudging service in correcting past errors, supplying new facts, and making the necessary alterations for this Edition of 1891.

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