Name: | HARWICH DOCK - AFD6 |
Type: | Floating Dry Dock |
Laid down | 29/05/1911 |
Launched: | 06/12/1911 |
Completed: | 22/02/1912 |
Builder: | Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Co Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend Yard |
Yard Number: | 893 |
Dimensions: | 2000tons lift, 280.0 x 75.0 x 16.0ft |
Engines: | None |
Engines by: | n/a |
Propulsion: | None |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
1912 | British Royal Navy |
1946 | Jonason Bray, Stockholm |
No further history known | |
Comments: | To be based at Harwich for destroyers, able to lift two at a time |
Dimensions: overall length, width between walls & max internal draft | |
Also known as the Lapwell Dock | |
Left the Tyne for Harwich towed by tugs GREAT EMPEROR & NESTOR | |
08/1921: Moved to Sheerness Dockyard | |
1946: Towed to Stockholm by ZWARTE ZEE | |
28/08/1946: Arrived at Stockholm | |
Believed to have been lengthened in the 1950s | |
At Ekensberg shipyard, Sweden, until around 1970 |
Above photo is courtesy of the Mersea Museum
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