British Empire Dockyards and Ports, 1909

These plans of the many British Empire dockyards and ports are from the Dock Book, June 1909, published by the British Admiralty "For the Information of Officers in H. M. Service Only." (A rough average is 150 KB per plan).

• Outline of the British Isles, Showing Ports having Dry Dock Accomodation
• Summary of Large Docks and Ship Classes

Sketches of Drydocks

• Outline Sketch of a Modern Drydock (1908)
• Outline Sketch of an 1872 Drydock
• Outline Sketch of a Self-Docking Floating Dock
• Floating Dock Sections: Bermuda, Kobe No 2, Rotterdam No 4, Durban
• Floating Dock Sections: Kiel (proposed), Callao, Bremen, Trinidad
• Floating Dock Sections: Pola No 2, Pola No 3, Hamburg Vulcan No 1, Hamburg Vulcan No 2

British Isles

• H.M. Dockyard, Chatham
• H.M. Dockyard, Devonport
• H.M. Dockyard, Haulbowline
• H.M. Dockyard, Pembroke
• H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth
• H.M. Naval Establishment, Rosyth
• H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness

• Belfast
• Birkenhead
• Birkenhead - Cammell, Laird's Docks
• Bristol
• Glasgow - Harbour Plan
• Glasgow - Part of Harbour + Nos 1, 2 and 3 Docks
• Grimsby
• Leith Harbour
• Liverpool - Brunswick Dock
• Liverpool - Canning Docks
• Liverpool - Herculaneum Docks
• Liverpool - Langton, Brocklebank and Canada Docks
• Liverpool - Sandon Half-Tide Dock
• River Thames (Lower Hope Reaches)
• River Tyne
• Southampton Docks
• Swansea

Self-Governing Dominions

• Australia - Sydney (Port Jackson)
• Canada - Halifax
• Canada - Halifax (1904)
  (from Gilbert Tucker's The Naval Service of Canada
• Canada - Esquimalt
• Canada - Esquimalt (1903)
  (from Gilbert Tucker's The Naval Service of Canada
• New Zealand - Auckland
• South Africa - Simon's Bay

Overseas Possessions

• H.M. Dockyard, Bermuda
• Ceylon (Sri Lanka) - Colombo Harbour
• Gibraltar
• Hong Kong - Plan of Harbour (Kowloon)
• Hong Kong - Naval Yard
• Hong Kong - Waters East (Taikoo Dockyard)
• India - Bombay
• Malta

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