Swansea docks - Wikipedia
WEBThe Port of Swansea is an Atlantic shipping port operated by Associated British Ports which comprises the King's Dock, Queen's Dock, two dry docks and a roll-on/roll-off ferry terminal in the River Tawe.
Swansea & Port Talbot Docks History Website
WEBAs well as an extensive selection of photographs, the website incorporates many articles on the history, development and trade of the ports of Swansea and Port Talbot, and all this information can be accessed from the menu buttons below.
Aerial View of Historic Swansea Docks: Past, Present, and Future
WEBEmbark on a captivating aerial journey over the iconic Swansea Docks, a testament to the city's maritime heritage and ongoing transformation.
Swansea and Port Talbot Docks Website
WEBThe continuing growth of traffic between the port and the collieries and metallurgical industries of the Swansea Valley highlighted the need for an improved system of transportation, leading to the completion of the Swansea Canal between Ystradgynlais and Swansea in 1798.
Swansea docks - Wikiwand
WEBSwansea Docks is the collective name for several docks in Swansea, Wales, which are immediately south-east of Swansea city centre. In the mid-19th century, the port was exporting 60% of the world's copper from factories situated in the Tawe Valley. [1]
Swansea and Port Talbot Docks Website
WEBTown Float, or North Dock. The Town Float, later to become known as the North Dock, was created by diverting a section of the River Tawe into a newly-excavated channel known as the New Cut, and converting the original section of river bed into a 'floating dock' - that is to say, a dock in which ships could remain afloat at all times as opposed ...
Swansea Docks
WEBIn 1881 the Prince of Wales Dock (nprn 419501) opened, the first of the modern complex of docks on the eastern side. It was built largely on the site of Port Tennant. In the nineteenth century...
Docks and transport - Swansea Museum
WEBDocks and transport. The River Tawe being navigable to sea traffic for some three miles into the South Wales coalfield made its banks prime sites for industry.
Port of SWANSEA (GB SWA) details - MarineTraffic
WEBReal-time updates about vessels in the Port of SWANSEA GBSWA: expected arrivals, port calls & wind forecast for SWANSEA Port, by MarineTraffic.
WEBSwansea Docks. In the late eighteenth century, Swansea was both a fashionable seaside resort and an expanding port. However, in the nineteenth century docks were built to accommodate rapidly growing trade, and Swansea’s ambitions to be a seaside resort were ended. The first dock opened in 1852, to be followed by four more between 1859 and 1920.