Prince's Half-Tide Dock on the
River Mersey,
England, is a
half tide dock and part of the
Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the northern dock system in
Vauxhall
Vauxhall ( ) is a district in South West London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. Vauxhall was part of Surrey until 1889 when the County of London was created. Named after a medieval manor, "Fox Hall", it became well known for ...
, connected to
East Waterloo Dock and
West Waterloo Dock to the north and
Prince's Dock
The Port of Hull is a port at the confluence of the River Hull and the Humber Estuary in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Seaborne trade at the port can be traced to at least the 13th century, originally con ...
to the south.
History
The dock opened in 1810 and consisted of a
lock entrance from the Mersey. This passage has since been closed off. The dock was rebuilt in 1868 by
George Fosbery Lyster
George Fosbery Lyster FRSE (1821–1899) succeeded John Hartley as Engineer in Chief to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. He is usually referred to as G. F. Lyster.
Life
He was born on 7 September 1821 at Mount Talbot in County Roscommon in ...
.
In 2007, work began on a £20 million extension of the
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, providing a further of navigable waterway and encompassing Prince's Half-Tide Dock.
A new lock, and fixed bridge, was built at the entrance to the adjoining Prince's Dock.
The dock was partly filled in to reduce its depth.
Future
The area surrounding Prince's Half-Tide Dock forms part of the proposed multi-billion pound
Liverpool Waters development with a series of towers planned to be built around the dock.
Prince's Half-Tide Dock is the proposed location of the new £3.5 million
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company ferry terminal, which will replace the existing facility at
Pier Head, which is "nearing the end of its operational life" according to the report placed before
Tynwald (the
Isle of Man parliament
The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council.
History
The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written in L ...
). The proposals were discussed before
Tynwald on 19 July 2016.
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Liverpool docks