Title

Devonport Dockyard, South Yard, Covered Slip No. 1, Devonport, Plymouth, 1942. Creator: George Bernard Mason.

Caption

Devonport Dockyard, South Yard, Covered Slip No. 1, Devonport, Plymouth, 1942. The interior of No. 1 covered slip in the South Yard of Devonport Dockyard. Number 1 slipway at the South Yard dates from the 1770s. Its timber framed cover, designed by Sir Robert Seppings, was erected in 1814. Covers for slips were introduced to protect wooden ships during construction and they were, at the time, some of the widest span roofs in Britain, pre-empting the subsequent iron sheds of the railway age.

Date

1942

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM21B16_092

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

69,8Mb (2,2Mb) / 18,8in x 14,4in / 5632 x 4330 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation building England interior timber architecture boat boats protection industry country ship ships British English cover devon protected industrial roof location century protect Britain protective inside covered concept georgian dockyard shipbuilding B&W 1940s Plymouth ship building Forties 19th century water transport Indoors black & white black and white B W 20th century nineteenth century decade slipway TGN timber framed photograph Robert Devonport George Bernard Mason Mason George Bernard Historic England 19th-century Devonport Dockyard Robert Seppings Seppings Sir Robert Seppings