Penrose
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By 1770 the Penrose family were among Waterford's leading Quaker merchants and the owners of many ships. In 1858 they opened their own shipbuilding and repair facility.
Penrose's shipyard was on a very small scale and very little is known about it. Only three ships, the M.E.C., the Mayfly and the Heron can be traced to the Penrose yard which closed in 1880 due to the general decline in the building of wooden ships.
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