View from NE showing bauxite barges moored on N front of E dock
SC 796163
Description View from NE showing bauxite barges moored on N front of E dock
Date 9/1985
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796163
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Burntisland Harbour, Fife This view from the north-east, taken in September 1985, shows the wet dock completed in 1902 for coal shipment, with two 'dumb' (engineless) barges used for bringing bauxite into the harbour from bulk carriers anchored offshore. The crane is for unloading the bauxite from the barges. The British Aluminium Co Ltd established a factory in about 1913 to purify bauxite to produce pure aluminium oxide for conversion to aluminium metal in their Highland smelting plants. When the bulk carriers used to transport the ore became too large to enter the port, the barge system was introduced. Burntisland has had a harbour at least since medieval times, and it has been rebuilt on numerous occasions. It took its present form between 1876 and 1902 when it was adapted as a coal-exporting port by the North British Railway. It was also for many centuries a ferry port for services to the Edinburgh area. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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