General view from ENE showing part of ESE front and part of NE front of docks with cranes in background

Description General view from ENE showing part of ESE front and part of NE front of docks with cranes in background

Date 1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 717744

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Govan Graving Docks, No 18 Clydebrae Street, Glasgow These three graving docks were built for the Clyde Navigation Trust between 1869 and 1898. Graving or dry docks are docks with gates which can be emptied to allow the submerged parts of ships to be examined, painted and repaired. Each of these docks was designed to take the largest vessel afloat. This view shows the entrances to numbers one and two graving docks from the entrance to Queen's Dock, looking south west. Note the two large electric cranes with 'cranked' jibs to allow them to clear the superstructures of vessels being repaired. The crane in the middle is a unique steam travelling crane. The first dock was built in 1869-71, and is the nearest to the river. Number two was completed in 1886, and number three in 1898, coinciding with completion of Prince's Dock, from whose entrance basin it opened. The docks were used for ship repairing until 1987, and have lain derelict ever since. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/1/30

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