Harbour gates replaced
Installation in June, 2004, of the second new dock gate at Arbroath Harbour was completed almost exactly 50 years after the previous dock gates had received their first major overhaul. The picture shows a group of interested onlookers watching as one of the gates was removed for repair in September, 1954. The diver on the quayside, quotes the accompanying article, had a difficult job as the erosion of time and weather had almost welded screw threads together and oxy-acetylene burners had to be used to cut off stubborn working parts. The correspondent of the day continued, "Two-inch crowbars bent like knitting needles when intractable parts refused to budge." One gate was removed with the assistance of a crane from HMS Condor, and the one pictured was floated off on the afternoon tide. Both were taken to the slipway for examination and repair. The gates, which weighed 15 tons each, had been installed in 1928 and had been in continuous use for 26 years.
Harbour gates replaced
Installation in June, 2004, of the second new dock gate at Arbroath Harbour was completed almost exactly 50 years after the previous dock gates had received their first major overhaul. The picture shows a group of interested onlookers watching as one of the gates was removed for repair in September, 1954. The diver on the quayside, quotes the accompanying article, had a difficult job as the erosion of time and weather had almost welded screw threads together and oxy-acetylene burners had to be used to cut off stubborn working parts. The correspondent of the day continued, "Two-inch crowbars bent like knitting needles when intractable parts refused to budge." One gate was removed with the assistance of a crane from HMS Condor, and the one pictured was floated off on the afternoon tide. Both were taken to the slipway for examination and repair. The gates, which weighed 15 tons each, had been installed in 1928 and had been in continuous use for 26 years.