Hebburn, Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard, crane gantries

HER Number:
15745

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Hebburn, Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard, crane gantries

Place:
Hebburn

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Transport

Site Type: Broad:
Crane

Site Type: Specific:
Travelling Crane

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Two raised concrete gantries on which travelling cranes formerly ran. Installed in the late 1940s or early 1950s. They consist of thick concrete beds with a raised edge at each side, inside which the wires of the travelling crane ran. The gantries are supported at the southern end by concrete walls, and at the northern end by reinforced concrete struts. The western gantry still had [in 2000] a 35-ton mono-tower travelling crane at its south end. This is shown on 1950s plans as machine 548. Most of the iron rails at the raised sides of the ganyway have been removed. Beneath the gantry at the north end is a suspended concrete-built chamber. Both gantries retain traces of the winding mechanism by which the travellin cranes were moved, and the tramways along which they ran.

Easting:
3060

Northing:
6554

Grid Reference:
NZ30606554

Lats/Lons:

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