Title
Graythorp, Graythorp, Hartlepool, 13/07/1972. Creator: John Laing plc.
Caption
A view of progress on preparing Graythorp for the construction of North Sea oil platforms, showing cranes at work in the dry dock. In the early 1970s Laing Pipelines Offshore constructed the Graythorp fabrication yard and dry dock on the site of the old William Gray Shipyard. The company created a dry dock which was used for the construction of fixed platform North Sea drilling rigs for the BP North Sea Oil Project. The work carried out on site included dredging the dry dock and earthmoving with the aim of creating a very large dry dock 500 metres long and 250 metres deep, to be excavated to a depth of 8.4 metres below sea level and capable of holding a vessel or rig with a 8.5m draught.
Date
1972
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England
Reference
HRM21A84_432
Model release
No
Property release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
98,7Mb (4,0Mb) / 22,0in x 17,4in / 6610 x 5221 (300dpi)