The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

Tons.
23,000

46,000

1775
1785
1790
1801
1810
1820
1830
1840

135,000

230,000
368,000
460,000

734,000

1,412,000
2,445,000

3,536,000
3,650,000

Rate of Increase
1

2 times

It will now be necessary to take into account ie dock
accommodation provided for such an enormous accession

elusion as to the additions which will require to be made
for the increase which may reasonably be expected to take
place ; and we subjoin a table of the several docks, with
the date of their completion, and their respective areas of
water, taken from the same valuable work we have quoted
above

1715—01 d Dock
1763—Salthouse Dock
1771- George's Dock
1788—Kings Dock
1796 Queen's Dock
1813—Canning Dock
1816—Queen's Dock (enlarged)
1821—Prince's Dock
1823—Union Dock
1825—George's Dock (enlarged)
Basins ........ ............

Acres. Yards,
. 3 1,890
. 4 3,665
. 3 3,193
. 7 3,896
. 6 2,511

3,889
3,505
4,240
2,307

71 1,022
3 1,890

IK6-01d Dock (closed)

During this time, a period of a hundred and ten years,
the annual tonnage of the port had increased from 23,000
tons to 1,228,318 tons, or fifty-three times, and yet the
dock accommodation provided had only risen from three
acres to about sixty-eight acres, or a little more than
twenty-two times. The following are the names and
water areas of the docks constructed since that period :

Acres. Yards.
1830—Clarence Dock
1832—Brunswick Dock
1834—Waterloo Dock 6 1,153
1836—Victoria and Trafalgar Docks 12 1,362
1840—Coburg Dock 4 2,198
1842 —Toxteth Dock
1815—Albert and Harrington Docks,
and Canning half-tide Dock 11 118
1848—Salisbury, Collingwood, Stan-
ley, Nelson, and Bramley-
Moore Docks, and Clarence
Basin enlarged
1851—Wellington and Sandon Docks 22
1852—Huskisson Dock

34 1,778
3,685
993

Making a total area of Wet Docks and Basins of two hun-
dred acres, or about sixty-seven times the amount of dock
accommodation at the commencement, while the annual
amount of tonnage had increased a hundred and sixty-
It will readily be admitted that this is not
a certain test of estimating the comparison between the
actual amount of dock accommodation required at different
periods, but it will at least afford an approximation to the
truth, so as to form an opinion upon the probable necessi-
ties for the future, upon the presumed additions to the
• trade of the port which may reasonably be anticipated
It' will be observed, by a reference to the foregoing, that
since the commencement of the present century the rate
of increase has been greater than at any preceding period,
and that each succeeding ten years has gained upon the
preceding one. This has been the case up to the present
time ; and if we take into account the sources of new
trade to which we have already alluded, in addition to the
rapid augmentation of business with existing foreign
markets, the probability is, that Liverpool will extend her
trade even more rapidly than she has hitherto done.
The port of Liverpool may be said to consist of the
'estuary of the River Mersey, which, taking the extreme
theaofout five f
line ofu furlongs drloconk-wain bad
11, exretentdh. Th
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e length,of hi
and is about s
space on the cast, or Lancashire side, has, however, been
occupied by the docks already made, or in course of con-
struction, without leaving any available accommodation
for the purposes of ship-building : a loss the more to be
regretted, when it is considered that Liverpool alone could
supply an immense amount of employment for this branch
of trade. We shall not enter into any comment on the pro-
priety of extending the docks in a northwardly direction, '
its the subject has already undergone ample discussion,
and the works having been completed, it is now too late
for a remedy. It may, however, be remarked, that the
Huskisson Dock, lying so nearly opposite to the corner
of the Cheshire coast, has no sufficient protection from
westerly galas, and we refer to it simply to show the
impossibility of any (VOW 'extvnsion in that &rec.

seven times