Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 606107
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606107
David Logan and later engineers continued the practice of dredging and by 1871, under the direction of Clyde Navigation Engineer James Deas, a minimum depth of 22 ft at high water was available between Greenock and the Broomielaw quays, a distance of some 22 miles.
The 61-acre Queen’s Dock was built from 1872– 80 with basins 1866 ft, 1647 ft and 1000 ft long. Built under the direction of Deas and exemplify the heyday of Glasgow as a mercantile port and, in terms of population, Britain’s second largest city.
R Paxton and J Shipway
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
