Falmouth Docks
The Falmouth Docks & Engineering Company , or Falmouth Docks for short , was the port management company of the port of Falmouth . He operated a shipyard with four dry docks and the pier facilities for the handling of goods and storage and further transport. The company was founded in 1858. The yard's first dry dock began operations in 1861, and the company's Cornwall Railway followed in 1863.
In 1865 an agreement was signed with the Peruvian government which regulated the import of guano via Falmouth. In order to meet the demand in this long-term lucrative trade, additional warehouses were built. From 1870 onwards, larger quantities of china clay and iron were exported for a few years before the more direct railway line to Fowey shifted exports there. Since 1908 the company has been run as a shipyard by the Public Works Loan Commissioner . From 1918, the London company R & H Green & Silley Weir Ltd. the shipyard, and added two more to the now two dry docks. Together with the ship repair company Silley, Cox & Co Ltd. The company was nationalized in 1977 and became part of the British Shipbuilders Corporation , where it was named Falmouth Shiprepairers Ltd. was continued. The company was privatized again in 1985 and sold to the A&P Group in 1991 , from which it is still operated as A&P Falmouth .