page_title: William Jessop
section_title: West India Docks
hierarchical_section_title: William Jessop / West India Docks
caption_attribution_description: West India Docks: This engraving was published as Plate 92 of Microcosm of London (1810) (see File:Microcosm of London Plate 092 - West India Docks.jpg).
context_page_description: William Jessop was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
context_section_description: The West India Docks, built on the Isle of Dogs, was the first large wet docks built in the Port of London. Between 1800 and 1802 a wet dock area of 295 acres (1.19 km²) was created with a depth of 24 ft (7.3 m), and accommodating 600 ships. Jessop was the Chief Engineer for the docks, with Ralph Walker as his assistant.
caption: West India Docks by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson (figures) from Rudolph Ackermann's Microcosm of London, or, London in Miniature (1808–11).
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