3-053-720 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The new harbour refuge at Holyhead, [north Wales], 1873. 'The completion of the breakwater, and formal opening of the new harbour of refuge, formed by twenty-five years' labour at Holyhead, the well-known port for Dublin steam-packets on the coast of Anglesey, was celebrated last Tuesday...We now present a general view of the harbour and breakwater, looking over it towards the shore of Anglesey, the foreground, part of the Holyhead island or peninsula, being separated from Anglesey by a wide inlet of the sea...The steam-packet harbour and pier...are seen in that direction. In the middle of the view is the capacious new harbour, with the breakwater extending...across the bay, and having a length of a mile and a half...A number of colliers and other small vessels lie under its shelter, while two or three ships of war are anchored in deeper water...The Devastation and other large ironclads are lying outside, in the open roadstead...The breakwater is terminated by a head on which is erected a lighthouse...The late Mr. J. M. Rendel superintended the work personally as engineer-in-chief...until his death, in 1856, when Mr. John Hawkshaw succeeded him. Mr. G. C. Dobson has been the resident engineer, and the contractors Messrs. J. and C. Rigby'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.