The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

DOCK EXTENSION AND IMPROVEMENT.

The CHAIRMAN said the next business was the report
of the special sub-committee appointed to consider the
arrangements necessary for dock extension and improve-
ment.

Mr. GREGSON remarked that it was the wish of the
committee that no discussion should take place on the
subject at present.

The CuluntAx. suggested that no discussion should
take place this week, but that the consideration of the
question would come on next week.
Mr. MASON, the secretary, then read the following
report :

" The special sub-committee appointed on the 12th
January, 1854, to consider and arrange plans of dock im-
provement and extension, and to report thereon to the
general committee, having, at numerous meetings held
for the purpose, had before them plans of the dock estate,
and taken into consideration various documents and sug-
gestions referred to them by the general committee, as
well as the representations made by deputations from
several important mercantile bodies, beg leave to, report
that the testimony of all parties, however differing in the
mode of accomplishing it, alike concurs as to the imme-
diate urgency of having enlarged accommodation provided
in every department for the increasing connueree of the
port.

• " For such objects, therefore, the attention of the sub-
committee was naturally directed, in the first instance,
to the Harrington estate, but it was found that that
valuable possession could not be made further available
while occupied, as at present, by the timber trade and
on examining, next in order, the site on the north shore,
with the present parliamentary boundary of the dock es-
tate, it was evident that, if restricted by the blocks of
land now in process of formation for the Earl of Derby,
the space would be insufficient for the great purposes re-
quired, and that in order to provide the ample accommo-
dation which is so imperatively demanded, it would be-
come of the utmost importance to secure a large additional
quantity of land, extending eastward from the blocks be-
fore alluded to, as far as the Derby-road, and to provide
for a second communication with the Leeds and Liverpool.
Canal, Negotiations were therefore entered intoi with
the Earl of Derby and J. Shaw Leigh, Esq" winue
resulted in an agreement on the part of
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now unoccupied:eastward of; the:linskisson Dock, for the
sum of £164,200, 'subject to the approval of the general
committee and' of .the Town Council,_ within a limited
period, and to Pirliamentary powers, being obtained for
carrying the same into effect.
" The sub-committee also recommend: that power should
be taken in the proposed bill to, enable the Dock Com-
mittee to acquire- the.land lying. between the aforesaid
purchase from the Earl of Derby and-the Derby-road, and
also a few small pieces dividing-Mr: Leigh's land, or which
may be otherwise necessary to the arrangement.
" The quantities rzul:computed prices- of the said land
are, as far as practicable,,contained! in, an appendix, and
which the sub-committee beg - may be, taken as part of
their report, and the- sub-committee, for more precision,
submit thereupon a plitnof dock. extension. It shows—

A. TDB.
52 3218

18 3611
6 3406

A large north dock of
A dock south of the preceding
The entrance basin
With the 500 feet entrance lock •whicht has
already received the sanction of the general
committee
A long eastward dock ba.three compartments...
A dock south-west of the Huskisson D0ck.......
Two docks on the land purchased from Mr. Leigh 28

25 1001
9 2829

140 1963
" The sub-committee also, having .regard to the impor-
tance of graving docks for steam-ships of. the largest size,
and of concentrating work appertaining to them as much
as possible in one locality,. ,have provided( five graving
docks, to be constructed on the present storing ground
east of the Huskisson Dcek:.

" The entrance of such tloating_docks .willise as follows :
—One lock and two passages-of those docks-will be 100
feet in width, one 80 feet, and two 70 feet each, and the
whole of the remaining communication mill be 60 feet in
width. The lineal yards. of graving dock.will be 1000
yards. It is proposed to lay-• out the land between the
north and east docks as follows I—Quay,.36o feet wide ;
timber or other yards,Zoo feet deep; street,.6o feet wide;
and to appropriate the landtom the east side of the eastern
dock to meet the numerous. applications whioh. have been
received for yards and otherconveniences requking water
frontage and quay space, distinct from the accommodation
hitherto within the capacity of the Dock. Committee to
afford, though intimately connected .with the facilities
required by the general trade of. the _port.
" It is expected, also, that the land: west of the large
north dock will provide extensive accommodation for
shipbuilders, who, though so essential to the interests of
this great maritime community, have almost been excluded
i from consideration for many years past.