Retired Section Swansea Docks

Construction of Palmers Dry Dock, Swansea
The following photographs show the construction of Palmers Dry Dock at Swansea. Owned and operated by
Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co. Ltd.until taken over some years later by the Prince of Wales Dry Dock Co.,
the dry dock measured 560 ft. x 75 ft. and was opened in 1924. The first ship to use  the new dry dock
was the s.s. British Empress
 

September 1922.
 

October 1922.
 

November 1922.
 

December 1922.
 

January 1923.
 

March 1923.
 

April 1923.
 

May 1923.
 

June 1923.
 

September 1923.
 

October 1923.
 

November 1923.
 

December 1923.
 

January 1924.
 

February 1924.
 

View of dry dock gates from the Kings Dock.
 

View of dry dock gates from inside the dry dock.
 

Palmers Dry Dock  gates.
 

Newspaper cutting of the ss British Empress entering the dry dock.

Newspaper cutting of Lady Pole opening the dry dock gates

Note.
Lady Pole was the wife of Sir Felix John Clewett Pole, General Manager of the Great Western Railway, 1921 to 1929.
 

ss British Empress, first ship to enter Palmers Dry Dock.