Title
Graythorp, Graythorp, Hartlepool, 14/06/1975. Creator: John Laing plc.
Caption
A bird's-eye view of the oil platform Graythorp II and a large crowd of people gathered for its naming ceremony at Graythorp. 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 oil platform Graythorp I was launched on Saturday 29th June 1974 and on the weekend of 14th-15th June 1975, Graythorp II was named and floated out of the dock basin down the Seaton Channel to where it was handed over to its owners BP.
Date
1975
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England
Reference
HRM21A84_497
Model release
No
Property release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
78,5Mb (3,3Mb) / 17,4in x 17,5in / 5225 x 5249 (300dpi)