Pumped out almost dry showing one of the original Dock Gates still in situ. The Dock was built about 1882 & this is the first time that people have seen the bottom of the Dock
Floating Dock being pumped dry for the first time in living memory. On right temporary retaining barrier to permit necessary engineering work. Holmans Dry Dock and Ship Repairing Yards in background
The Fleswick, launched at Troon in 1900, wrecked at Black cliff on January 28th 1902.
The lifeboat crew rescued six men and a pilot from the 195-ton Whitehaven coaster Fleswick which, inward bound from Neath, lay with decks awash off Black Cliff.…