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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 881878
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/881878
The present harbour, built 1841–46, was largely designed by James Leslie, and included modifications to an earlierharbour built by John Gibb. The main work associated with the harbour was the construction of a massive rubble-filled,
ashlar-faced seawall founded on a rock strata that shelved gently towards the sea. The seawall was constructed of trenailed and dovetailed sandstone masonry with ashlars that varied in size from 5 to 30 cu. ft each. The slip for boat repair may date from this time. A Morton’s Patent Slip of earlier date is shown on Gibb’s plan of 1838.
The area enclosed by the breakwater totalled 7 acres and included the Old and New Harbours of 2 and 3 acres respectively, and a new outer harbour of 1 acre. These harbours provided 800 yards of wharfage and had a depth of 12 ft at spring tides. The Old Harbour was reconstructed in 1871–77 to form a wet dock, and the
depth of the tidal harbours was increased by dredging.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007b
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
