# Coburg Dock > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Coburg_Dock > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Coburg_Dock.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg_Dock > Source revision: 1272822541 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Liverpool), [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) | coordinates = {{coord|53.3914|-2.9851|display=title, inline|region:GB_scale:2000}} | grid_ref_UK = SJ345887 | owner = [Canal & River Trust](/source/Canal_%26_River_Trust){{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}} | opened = 1840 | type = [Wet dock](/source/Floating_dock_(impounded)) | joins = {{ubl|[Brunswick Dock](/source/Brunswick_Dock)|[Queen's Dock](/source/Queen's_Dock%2C_Port_of_Liverpool)}} | area = {{convert|8|acre|ha|abbr=on}}, {{convert|26|sqyd|m2|abbr=on}} (in 1858){{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 104}} | width_entrance = {{convert|70|ft|1|in|m|abbr=on}} (in 1858){{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 117}} | quay_length = {{convert|1053|yd|m|abbr=on}} (in 1858) }} right|thumb|British Empire Dockyards and Ports, 1909 '''Coburg Dock''' is a dock on the [River Mersey](/source/River_Mersey), in [England](/source/England), and part of the [Port of Liverpool](/source/Port_of_Liverpool). It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to [Queens Dock](/source/Queen's_Dock%2C_Port_of_Liverpool) to the north, [Brunswick Dock](/source/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.{{harvnb|Pollard|Pevsner|2006|p=272}} Brunswick Basin was renamed as Coburg Dock in 1840, in honour of [Prince Albert](/source/Albert%2C_Prince_Consort), and provided with a {{convert|70|ft|m|abbr=on}}-wide river entrance.{{harvnb|McCarron|Jarvis|1992|pp=30–31}} From 1842, the dock became [Jesse Hartley](/source/Jesse_Hartley)'s South Dockyard headquarters. Coburg Dock was enlarged in 1858, consuming the Union dock,{{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}} and enlarged again in 1902. 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](/source/grain_silo). The dock closed in 1972. In 1986, the grain silo near the dock basin was demolished.{{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}} [South Ferry Basin](/source/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.{{harvnb|Whittington-Egan|1972|pp=16–17}} ==Present use== [[File:Marina, Coburg Dock (geograph 2853476).jpg|thumb|[Liverpool Marina](/source/Liverpool_Marina), Coburg Dock]] This and the other docks in the southern system were owned by [British Waterways](/source/British_Waterways), now transferred to the [Canal & River Trust](/source/Canal_%26_River_Trust). Part of the dock is set aside for moorings within [Liverpool Marina](/source/Liverpool_Marina). Mariner's Wharf, on the north quayside, was built between 1989 and 1997. ==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] {{Port of Liverpool docks}} Category:Liverpool docks --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Coburg Dock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg_Dock) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg_Dock?action=history)). 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