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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands
Date 2007
Event ID 929748
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929748
Buckie Harbour
The first significant harbour at Buckie, about 34 mile west of the main harbour and enclosing about 4 acres between two piers,was built in ca.1855 to the design of D. & T. Stevenson.
The present harbour at the Salter’s Bay site was recommended for a fishing harbour by Telford in 1805 and later the Stevensons. It was eventually built from 1874–80 by direct labour and extended between 1888 and 1921. The 1874–80 work represents an early example of the use of
concrete in pier construction. The traditional and new construction can be seen in the cross-sections.
This harbour is also unusual in having a layout with a long pier parallel to the shoreline adjoining five jetties from the shore which divided the harbour into four basins. The entrance is sheltered by an extension to the
main pier with a lighthouse at its end.
The consulting engineer to John Gordon of Cluny, who met the £60 000 cost of the 1874–80 work, was W. Dyce Cay who designed the project. The engineer responsiblefor detailed design was David Cunningham and the
resident engineer was James Barron. A model of the harbour gained a silver medal at the International Fisheries Exhibition at Edinburgh in ca.1882.
The harbour is now used for fishing, general cargo and recreation.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
