View looking ESE showing SS Scotia at Victoria Dock with Waterloo Quay Goods Shed on left

Description View looking ESE showing SS Scotia at Victoria Dock with Waterloo Quay Goods Shed on left

Date 3/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 717816

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Victoria Dock, Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen Victoria Dock was Aberdeen's first large dock, built between 1840 and 1848. It was a wet (gated) dock, with both a single pair of gates and a lock to allow vessels to enter and leave when the tide was ebbing and flowing. At first the dock sides seem to have been open. This shows the west end of Waterloo Quay, from the west, with Provost Blaikie's Quay on the right, forming the north and south sides of the dock at its east end. The single-storey transit sheds are late 19th century. The ship at Waterloo Quay is the fishery research ship 'Scotia'. The general cargo ships lying at Provost Blaikie's Quay are typical of the immediate post-World War II period, soon to be replaced by container ships and bulk carriers. Waterloo Quay was remodelled in the mid 1970s to handle oil-rig supply ships for the North Sea Oil Industry. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/4/10

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