View looking NNE showing SS Scotia at Victoria Dock with Waterloo Quay Goods Shed in background

Description View looking NNE showing SS Scotia at Victoria Dock with Waterloo Quay Goods Shed in background

Date 3/3/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 717918

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 Provost Blaikie's Quay looking north. The single-storey transit sheds are late 19th century. The ship at Waterloo Quay is the fishery research ship 'Scotia'. The chimneys in the background are at the Sandilands Chemical Works. Waterloo Quay was remodelled in the mid 1970s to handle oil-rig supply ships for the North Sea Oil Industry, and these transit sheds were demolished. The 'Scotia' was replaced by a more modern vessel in the later 1970s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/6/12

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