Following the launch of trove.scot in February 2025 we are now planning the retiral of some of our webservices. Canmore will be switched off on 24th June 2025. Information about the closure can be found on the HES website: Retiral of HES web services | Historic Environment Scotland
Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 617782
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/617782
This jetty is an early reinforced concrete structure on the west side of Loch Long constructed ca.1915 for the Admiralty Torpedo Testing Station. The jetty comprises a deck with supporting columns and bracing, and bears a strong resemblance to a similar jetty at Suishnish, Isle of Raasay. Both are understood to have been designed about the same time by F. A. MacDonald & Partners of Edinburgh but are also included in Sir Robert McAlpine’s McAlpine Contracts (ca.1919, 85) as being built by them. McAlpines also state that they ‘were wholly responsible for the design of the reinforced concrete pier’. We have not been able to resolve this apparent contradiction! No public access is allowed.
R Paxton and Jim Shipway 2007b
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
