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View from SE showing harbour signals on lock with part of sheer legs on right
SC 717844
Description View from SE showing harbour signals on lock with part of sheer legs on right
Date 3/3/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 717844
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Locks, Waterloo Quay (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 main entrance passage to the dock, from the east. The semaphore signals were installed to control the movement of vessels through the entrance, and through the St Clement's Bridge. The sheer legs were installed to lift marine steam engines and boilers, in 1910. The semaphore signals look as though they were survivals from the 19th century, when such signals were fairly common methods of controlling the movements of ships. They were swept away, together with the dock gates, associated masonry and St Clement's Bridge, in the early 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/4/35
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