Other industrial uses dominate to the south of the wet dock.

The first commercial wet dock was built in Liverpool in 1715.

He opened the flap wider and slithered out onto the cold, wet dock.

The woman tottering along the wet dock to finish the job was Kyra's aunt.

Even a wet dock did not escape conversion.

Ignoring the others, even Bertran, he knelt on the wet dock beside the dying man.

The Ipswich wet dock was dug in 1842 to accommodate booming commercial coastal trade.

The Chamkcook harbour, a wet dock, lies is to the eastern side of the peninsular where development took place.

It was the first commercial enclosed wet dock in the world and was constructed for a capacity of 100 ships.

By 1807 the wet dock was in use for convict transports by ship to Australia.

A wet dock was constructed in 1842 which was 'the biggest enclosed dock in the kingdom' at the time.

The work started in 1906, consisted of the construction of two small piers out of grip of share and others of the wet dock.

From 1738 to his death Steers worked on Liverpool's second wet dock, the South (later Salthouse) dock.

Chaucer worked in the first Customs House, and Pepys saw the building of the first wet dock at Blackwall.

It was named Howland Great Wet Dock in honour of John Howland.

In 1709 it had been authorised to construct Liverpool's first enclosed ship basin, the Old Dock, which was the world's first commercial wet dock.

Its construction was a considerable engineering feat, an enclosed wet dock of three and a half acres built within the pool, a tidal creek of the Mersey.

A floating dock, floating harbour or wet dock is a dock alongside a tidal waterway that maintains a constant level, despite the changing tides.

Having been subsequently enclosed as a wet dock three years earlier, in 1832 it was officially named after the Liverpool MP, George Canning.

The graving dock has since been converted into a wet dock (Gladstone Number Three Branch Dock).

He was England's first major civil engineer and built many canals, the world's first commercial wet dock, the Old Dock at Liverpool, and a theatre.

The first wet dock was Howland Great Wet Dock, built in London at the end of the 17th century.

The world's first commercial enclosed wet dock, with quays and unloading warehouses, was the Old Dock at Liverpool, built in 1715 and held up to 100 ships.

The Cliff Brewery is a former English brewery located on Cliff Lane, near the Ipswich wet dock.

More recently, the old, abandoned Wet Docks (Bassins-à-Flots) to the north of the centre have also been colonised by folk offering most entertainment you might need through till dawn.