Yard, with seven slipways and 300-foot fitting-out quay set out on land downstream of Barnstaple Bridge.
In October 1919 the company was reconstituted as Taw Shipyard Ltd for the building of steel coasters.

CRETEPATH (barge) (Off.no.: -----) (Yard no.: ?)
Lch: 1918.09.21.
1.000 Dwt., 715 grt., 695 nrt.
Dim: 57,15 x 9,60 x 4,98 m.
Owners:
1917: Ordered as PD 152
1918.09.21: Launched for  The Shipping Controller, London, U.K. as CRETEPATH but grounded on a sandbank and broke in two,
wreckage later blown up and removed.


Launch of CRETEPATH

CRETEPOND (barge), (Off.no.: 143161) (Yard no.: ?)
Lch: 1918, Compl.: 1919.04.02. (Launch delayed while wreck from CRETEPATH removed)
1.000 Dwt., 715 grt., 695 nrt.
Dim: 57,15 x 9,60 x 4,98 m.
Owners: Owners:
1917: Ordered as PD 153
1919.04.02. Completed for  The Shipping Controller, London, U.K. as CRETEPOND.
1921: Transferred to the Board of Trade, London, U.K.
1926: Joseph Bowles, Cardiff, U.K.
1927: Sunk in construction of a pier.

Thanks to David Asprey, U.K.  for updating help with this page

From Judith Rastall we got this interesting web page http://www.rastall.com/conship.html about the launch of CRETEPATH.

Here is more to read about concrete ships http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship