East Waterloo Dock

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East Waterloo Dock is a dock on the River Mersey, England and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is situated in the northern dock system in Vauxhall and is connected only to Princes Half Tide Dock to the south.

The dock was opened in 1834 as Waterloo Dock and named after the Battle of Waterloo.

An observatory was built here for astronomical and meteorological observations and to provide accurate time for ships' chronometers in 1843. From 1866, the observatory was relocated to Bidston Hill on the Wirral Peninsula when the dock was redeveloped.^[1]

In 1868, Waterloo Dock was split in two separate basins; East Waterloo Dock and West Waterloo Dock.^[2]

The dock closed to shipping in 1988 and the extensive Waterloo Warehouse has since been converted into residential apartments.

References

↑ John Hartnup, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, retrieved 6 April 2008
↑ Trading Places: Waterloo Dock History, Liverpool Museums, retrieved 6 April 2008

v t e Port of Liverpool docks

North docks	Alexandra Dock Bramley-Moore Dock Brocklebank Dock Canada Dock Carrier Dock Clarence Dock Collingwood Dock East Waterloo Dock Gladstone Dock Hornby Dock Huskisson Dock Langton Dock Nelson Dock Princes Dock Princes Half Tide Dock Salisbury Dock Sandon Dock Sandon Half Tide Dock Seaforth Dock Stanley Dock Trafalgar Dock Victoria Dock Wellington Dock West Waterloo Dock

South docks	Albert Dock Brunswick Dock Brunswick Half Tide Dock Canning Dock Canning Half Tide Dock Coburg Dock Dukes Dock George's Dock George's Basin Harrington Dock Herculaneum Dock King's Dock Manchester Dock Old Dock Queen's Dock Salthouse Dock South Ferry Basin Toxteth Dock Wapping Dock

See also Port of Liverpool and List of Liverpool Docks (with coordinates and north-south sequence)

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