Coburg Dock

{{Short description|Dock in Liverpool, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox docks | name = Coburg Dock | image = File:Boats in Liverpool Marina at Coburg Dock 1.jpg | caption = | location = Liverpool, United Kingdom | coordinates = {{coord|53.3914|-2.9851|display=title, inline|region:GB_scale:2000}} | grid_ref_UK = SJ345887 | owner = Canal & River Trust<ref>{{cite web|url=https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/11495-liverpool-canal-link-revised-skippers-guide-august-2015.pdf|title=Liverpool Canal Link Skipper's Guide|work=Canal & River Trust|page=2|date=August 2015|access-date=28 August 2016}}</ref> | opened = 1840 | type = Wet dock | joins = {{ubl|Brunswick Dock|Queen's Dock}} | area = {{convert|8|acre|ha|abbr=on}}, {{convert|26|sqyd|m2|abbr=on}} (in 1858)<ref name="Baines1859-2-104">{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 104}}</ref> | width_entrance = {{convert|70|ft|1|in|m|abbr=on}} (in 1858)<ref name="Baines1859-2-117">{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 117}}</ref> | quay_length = {{convert|1053|yd|m|abbr=on}} (in 1858)<ref name="Baines1859-2-117" /> }}

right|thumb|British Empire Dockyards and Ports, 1909 '''Coburg Dock''' is a dock on the River Mersey, in England, and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to Queens Dock to the north, Brunswick Dock to the south.

==History== The Union Half Tide Basin and Brunswick Basin first existed on the site, which were built c.1817-23.<ref name="Pollard2006-272">{{harvnb|Pollard|Pevsner|2006|p=272}}</ref> Brunswick Basin was renamed as Coburg Dock in 1840, in honour of Prince Albert, and provided with a {{convert|70|ft|m|abbr=on}}-wide river entrance.<ref name="McCarron1992-30">{{harvnb|McCarron|Jarvis|1992|pp=30–31}}</ref> From 1842, the dock became Jesse Hartley's South Dockyard headquarters.<ref name="McCarron1992-30" /> Coburg Dock was enlarged in 1858, consuming the Union dock,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol4/pp41-43|title=Liverpool: The docks|work=British History Online|access-date=4 September 2016}}</ref> and enlarged again in 1902.<ref name="McCarron1992-30" /> The river entrance fell into disuse and was subsequently sealed up.{{when|date=September 2016}} The dock was used as a repair berth and for grain discharge, having a {{convert|62000|LT|tonne|abbr=on}} capacity grain silo.<ref name="McCarron1992-30" /> The dock closed in 1972.<ref name="McCarron1992-30" /> In 1986, the grain silo near the dock basin was demolished.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery/silo1.html |title=Grain silo and Coburg Dock Marina, 1986|publisher=Black & White Picture Place|access-date=5 July 2009}}</ref>

South Ferry Basin or 'The Cockle Hole', a small open basin to the south, was little known under its own name and often confused as being part of Coburg Dock.<ref>{{harvnb|Whittington-Egan|1972|pp=16–17}}</ref>

==Present use== [[File:Marina, Coburg Dock (geograph 2853476).jpg|thumb|Liverpool Marina, Coburg Dock]] This and the other docks in the southern system were owned by British Waterways, now transferred to the Canal & River Trust. Part of the dock is set aside for moorings within Liverpool Marina.<ref name="Pollard2006-272" /> Mariner's Wharf, on the north quayside, was built between 1989 and 1997.<ref name="Pollard2006-272" />

==References== {{reflist|30em}}

===Sources=== *{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/liverpoolin185900bain|title=Liverpool in 1859|first=Thomas|last=Baines|year=1859|publisher=Longman & Co.|location=London|oclc=43484994}} *{{cite book|title=Give a Dock a Good Name?|first1=Ken|last1=McCarron|first2=Adrian|last2=Jarvis|publisher=Merseyside Port Folios|location=Birkenhead|year=1992|isbn=9780951612941|oclc=27770301}} *{{cite book|first1=Richard|last1=Pollard|first2=Nikolaus|last2=Pevsner|title=Lancashire: Liverpool and the South West|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780300109108|oclc=63396571}} *{{cite book|title=Liverpool, This Is My City|first=Richard|last=Whittington-Egan|author-link=Richard Whittington-Egan|year=1972|publisher=Gallery Press|location=Seel Street, Liverpool|isbn=0-900389-14-1|oclc=632797|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/liverpoolthisism0000whit}}

==External links== {{commons category|Coburg Dock}} *[https://www.liverpoolmarina.com/ Liverpool Marina] * {{cite web|url=http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2a.htm|title=Liverpool South Docks diagram|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107034039/http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2a.htm|archive-date=7 January 2009}} * [http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=334596&Y=388745&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=pc&pc=&zm=0&scale=5000&multimap.x=420&multimap.y=203 Coburg Dock aerial photo]

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