Hebburn, Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard, dry dock

HER Number:
15740

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Hebburn, Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard, dry dock

Place:
Hebburn

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Marine Construction Site

Site Type: Specific:
Dry Dock

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
The dock was first built in 1866 but it has been altered with later refits. It has a typical keel-shaped profile and is built of masonry and concrete with keel blocks (concrete blocks which raise the ship's hull above floor level) on the dock floor. A narrow gangway spans the dock at the seaward end. The travelling cranes which formerly stood at the side of the dry dock are no longer in-situ, but their tram rails remain in place. The dock gate is probably that which was installed during a refit in the late 1920s. Work in the 1930s narrowed the starboard (west) dock wall.

Easting:
3048

Northing:
6548

Grid Reference:
NZ30486548

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Lancaster University Archaeological Unit, June 2000, Former Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard, Tyne and Wear, Archaeological Assessment