Graythorp, Graythorp, Hartlepool, 13/07/1972. Creator: John Laing plc.

Graythorp, Graythorp, Hartlepool, 13/07/1972. Creator: John Laing plc.

2-847-649 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

A view of progress on preparing Graythorp for the construction of North Sea oil platforms, showing cranes at work in the dry dock. In the early 1970s Laing Pipelines Offshore constructed the Graythorp fabrication yard and dry dock on the site of the old William Gray Shipyard. The company created a dry dock which was used for the construction of fixed platform North Sea drilling rigs for the BP North Sea Oil Project. The work carried out on site included dredging the dry dock and earthmoving with the aim of creating a very large dry dock 500 metres long and 250 metres deep, to be excavated to a depth of 8.4 metres below sea level and capable of holding a vessel or rig with a 8.5m draught.


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Creator
  1. John Laing plc, attributed to: British: construction and civil engineering company

Medium
  1. Photograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe United Kingdom England Hartlepool Hartlepool

  1. 54 41 10 N , 001 12 45 W

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Trade & Industry Construction Industry

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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 6610x5221
File Size : 33,702kb


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  1. JLP01/08/092044
  1. JLP01_08_092044
  1. 0250009336
  1. 2-847-649
  1. 2847649
  1. JLP01/08/092044


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