Greenock, Garvel Dry Dock
Dry Dock (19th Century)
Site Name Greenock, Garvel Dry Dock
Classification Dry Dock (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Garvel Point; Greenock Harbour; Garvel Graving Dock; Garvel Docks; Upper Firth Of Clyde; Inner Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 68374
Site Number NS27NE 31.01
NGR NS 29531 75888
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68374
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Greenock
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Inverclyde
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS27NE 31.01 29531 75888
For (adjacent to S) James Watt Dock (NS 29677 75697), see NS27NE 17.00.
Formerly entered as NS27NE 19.
Visible on vertical air photographs, (OS 88/041/100, 102, flown 1988).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
'Garvel Graving Dock (1871), engineer W R Kinipple'.
J R Hume 1976.
Construction (1871)
Project (2007)
This project was undertaken to input site information listed in 'Civil engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' by R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Publication Account (2007)
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.
Note (5 June 2017)
Garvel Dry Dock, which was constructed in 1871 as part of the Great Harbour scheme, was built on land that was once part of Garvel Park estate. The dry dock remains in use for ship repair.
Information from Historic Environment Scotland (AKK) 12 May 2017
