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  2. Execution Dock - Wikipedia

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    Execution Dock was a grisly place in the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts. The "dock" consisted of a scaffold for hanging. Its last executions were in 1830.

  3. Half tide dock - Wikipedia

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    Half tide dock. A half tide dock is a partially tidal dock. Typically the dock is entered at high tide. As the tide ebbs a sill or weir prevents the level dropping below a certain point, meaning that the ships in the dock remain afloat, although they still rise and fall with the tides above this. Half tide docks are particularly useful in areas ...

  4. Bidston Dock - Wikipedia

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    The dock had a trio of large moveable cranes to unload the iron ore, which were dismantled in the late 1990s. The northern quayside of Bidston Dock was the iron ore berth, which was operated by Rea Ltd. The southern quayside was unallocated. By 1992, the dock was only being used for laying up ships, such as the Isle of Man Steam Packet vessels.

  5. List of Admiralty floating docks - Wikipedia

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    Admiralty Floating Dock No. 17 - Reykjavik. 2750 tons built at Devonport. Moved to Sydney in 1944 arriving in May 1945 [20] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 18 - Clark Stanfield design, lifting capacity of 2750 tons [21] Admiralty Floating Dock No. 19 - Latterly at Vickers Shipbuilders/VSEL.

  6. Herculaneum Dock - Wikipedia

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    Between 1794 and 1841 it was the site of a pottery. In 1864, a new dock designed by George Fosbery Lyster was blasted from the foreshore, providing two graving docks. This dock opened in 1866. Ten years later, a third graving dock was added. Beginning in 1873, the dock handled petroleum.

  7. Canning Dock - Wikipedia

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    Canning Dock was opened in 1737 as the Dry Dock, a protected tidal basin providing an entrance to Old Dock. Having been subsequently enclosed as a wet dock three years earlier, [4] in 1832 it was officially named after the Liverpool MP George Canning. To the east is the site of Old Dock, built in 1709, which was the world's first enclosed ...