Originally Posted by
blue sky
If you think many people are interested in either Cardiff’s history as a coal port or the dock feeder’s role in Cardiff’s history then you are delusional. Swansea, Plymouth, Weymouth, Southampton, Portsmouth, Folkestone, Dover, Tilbury, Gravesend, Harwich, Felixstowe, Grimsby, Hull, Redcar, Teesport, Sunderland, Port of Tyne, Leith, Dundee, Aberdeen, greater Glasgow’s various ports, Silloth, Barrow, Heysham, Liverpool and Bristol were all far less reliant on tides than Cardiff was/is. The Dock Feeder didn’t give Cardiff an advantage at all, it merely partially compensated for the fact that ships could only sail into and out of Cardiff during high tides. None of the ports I’ve listed were handicapped to the extent Cardiff was by the tides.
God this is almost as boring as the Dock Feeder.