shipyard

Wasn't going to post this but people seem to enjoy seeing these shots so thought I'd make it into something. After asking the question "where we dropping boys?", I found myself on holiday with the lads last summer in Gdańsk. Like every good trip, I managed to drag them round the old Imperial...

Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was a United States Navy shipyard in San Francisco, California. Known as "The World's Greatest Shipping Yard", President Theodore Roosevelt trusted his Great White Fleet of battleships to be serviced at Hunters Point in 1907. The original docks were built on solid...

One place I've had on my radar for a while, was an absolute misson here, trying to find an entry point, sneaking about, avoiding cameras and security, however it was well worth it in the end. The shipyard was huge, I felt quite intimated by the size of the place. I could of spent hours in here...

Bowling harbour is located within the village of Bowling Dunbartonshire (Scotland) It was a site of shipbuilding and repair dating back to the late 1700s. The last of the yards were closed in the 1970s. These photographs are of some of the remains of boats that lie wrecked in the harbour. It...

Sorry folks on the tourist trail for this one. I think Mookster's was the previous report on here and having seen that had to make the effort to see the machinery. Again history is a little scarce for this place. A very relaxed explore the way I like it these days mind. A great pity its been...

This was once part of the now demo'd Doxford shipyard, resides under the shadow of the Queen Alexandra bridge. https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/queen-alexandra-bridge-sunderland-august-2018.114254/ The current warehouse type buildings opened in the 1970's by Willian Doxford & Sons...

This place is a little surprise really, I had written it off as not worth a look after a spate of fires destroyed two of the workshops last year as well as some smaller buildings but it's a really great example of smaller scale British heavy industry, with pretty much all the machinery and tools...

Can’t beleive I’ve gone past this so many times and not even thought about taking a look to see what’s there. Not to sure on the history behind it but took some pictures of the shipyard while exploring. (didn’t have my camera so on me so I had to use my phone and it was pretty dark so the...

First post on here, will post more from my recent explores. Just want to thank member @Smidgey88 for finding this location and being my favourite urbex buddy! Old burnes shipyard in Bosham has been derelict for over twenty years. Unfortunately there is no previous information on the reason...

he shipyard was built in 1853 by Hebburn shipbuilders Andrew Leslie & Co. Andrew retired from the company in '86 and the new manager merged the company with RW Hawthorne - renowned engineers famed for building marine engines as well as a large number of locamotives (second only to Stephenson)...

History taken from from wikipedia: R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Limited, usually referred to as Hawthorn Leslie, was a shipbuilding and locomotive manufacturer. The Company was founded on Tyneside in 1886 and ceased building ships in 1982. The Company was formed by the merger of...

Tod and McGregor claimed to be the "fathers of iron shipbuilding on the Clyde" - in 1835, they launched the Vale of Leven, the first iron vessel actually built on the banks of the Clyde. Tod and McGregor had started out as foremen at Camlachie Foundry, and set out on thier own as marine...

I am staying in Gdansk at the moment and using my free time to do some exploring. Lots of interesting places here, so expect more reports from me soon. This one goes first: a crane in Gdansk Shipyard. I love those shipyard cranes. They are beautiful, they really look like birds, and they are...

Visited with Irishmanlost and BillAnd. Ok, so that's not the "official" name for this shipyard but I guess this is what it's most famous for. It smelt like all good docks should smell like, i.e. fish and poo. It was where the famous ship was built by the equally famous shipbuilders, Harland &...