View from S showing lock gates leading into Wet Dock.
SC 771592
Description View from S showing lock gates leading into Wet Dock.
Date 7/12/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 771592
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Arbroath Harbour, Angus This shows the dock gates of the inner wet dock. These could be opened at an appropriate stage of the tide to let vessels in, then closed as the tide fell, to keep vessels in the dock afloat. The east end of the basin can be seen in the background. Arbroath harbour was busy in the 1970s and 1980s with fishing boats, and had two boat-building yards, producing wooden boats. Since then the yards have closed, and the local fleet has shrunk dramatically. The use of the inner basin as a wet dock ended several years ago, and it is now fully tidal. The harbour at Arbroath has a complex history, but took its present form in 1841-6, when a new rail-linked outer harbour was built, and in 1871-7, when an inner wet dock was made out of the old harbour. The 1871-7 works also included the construction of a patent slip for ship repair. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/68/42
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