Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 606149
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606149
On 6 July 1871 the foundation stone of the Garvel graving dock to the design of the Harbour Trustees’ engineer W. R. Kinipple was laid. The dock was 650 ft long, built of Dalbeattie granite and completed in 1877 at a cost of £80 000.
R Paxton and J Shipway
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
