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Note
Date 6 June 2017
Event ID 1022732
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1022732
A wet dock or tidal dock in the bay of Newark area immediately E of the harbour (see NS37SW 150) was first proposed in 1799. Parliament passed an Act permitting the work in 1830 and construction commenced in 1833, continuing possibly as late as 1838. A number of collapses of the harbour walls are recorded, a final one jamming the dock gates. The wet dock never functioned properly and the town was left with a debt in excess of £25,000. Prone to silting, the dock was used to store timber although some ships did use the harbour wharfs. The dock was later used for shipbuilding until the 1930s but in the late 1960s it was filled in, with most of the area being incorporated into a public open space and the eastern end being acquired by Ferguson’s shipbuilding yard (see NS37SW 37). Only the outer W quay wall and the outer harbour entrance are now visible, but are currently used by Ferguson’s as part of their shipyard.
Information from HES, Survey and Recording (AKK) 2 April 2017.
