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{{Short description|Dock on the River Mersey, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
{{Infobox docks
| name = Brunswick Dock
| image = Brunswick Dock, Liverpool - 2014-03-24.JPG
| caption = Brunswick Dock
| location = [[Liverpool]], [[United Kingdom]] 
| coordinates = {{coord|53.3888|-2.9833|display=title, inline|region:GB_scale:2000}}
| grid_ref_UK = SJ347884
| owner = [[Canal & River Trust]]<ref name="CRT">{{cite web|url=https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/11495-liverpool-canal-link-revised-skippers-guide-august-2015.pdf|title=Liverpool Canal Link Skipper's Guide|work=Canal & River Trust|page=2|date=August 2015|access-date=28 August 2016}}</ref>
| opened = 1832<ref name="LHOL">{{cite web|url=http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/lhol/content.aspx?itemid=225|title=Brunswick Dock|work=Liverpool History Online|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116230112/http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/lhol/content.aspx?itemid=225|archive-date=16 January 2009}}</ref>
| type = [[Floating dock (impounded)|Wet dock]]
| joins = {{ubl|[[River Mersey]]|[[Coburg Dock]]}}
| area = {{convert|12|acre|ha|abbr=on}}, {{convert|3010|sqyd|m2|abbr=on}} (in 1858)<ref name="Baines1859-2-104">{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 104}}</ref>
| width_entrance = {{convert|60|ft|m|abbr=on}} (in 1858)<ref name="Baines1859-2-117">{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 117}}</ref>
| quay_length = {{convert|1086|yd|m|abbr=on}} (in 1858)<ref name="Baines1859-2-117" />
}}

:''Brunswick Dock is also the name of a dock in London, which became part of the [[East India Docks]].''
[[File:Dkbkpl29.jpg|right|thumb|British Empire Dockyards and Ports, 1909]]
'''Brunswick Dock''' is a dock on the [[River Mersey]], in [[England]], and part of the [[Port of Liverpool]]. It is situated in the southern dock system, connected to [[Coburg Dock]] to the north, [[Toxteth Dock]] to the south.

==History==
First suggested in 1809, the dock was built by [[Jesse Hartley]] between 1827 and 1832, when it opened, specifically for importing timber.<ref name="Pollard2006-270">{{harvnb|Pollard|Pevsner|2006|p=270}}</ref> The dock was Hartley's first.<ref>{{harvnb|Ashmore|1982|p=162}}</ref> It consisted of two [[Lock (water transport)|lock]] entrances from the river. In 1854, Cato, Miller & Company built ships at Brunswick Dock. The dock was rebuilt with a southern extension in 1905 by [[Anthony George Lyster]].<ref name="Pollard2006-270" /> The dock closed in 1975,<ref name="LHOL" /> although one lock was reopened in 1987 for small watercraft.<ref name="Pollard2006-270" />

==Present==
The [[Royal Navy]] Headquarters for the North of England (RNHQ NE) is on Brunswick Dock, which includes the [[Royal Naval Reserve]] [[shore establishment]] {{HMS|Eaglet|shore establishment|6}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/royal-naval-reserve/training-centres/hms-eaglet-liverpool/unit-information/|title=HMS Eaglet (Liverpool)|publisher=Royal Navy|access-date=5 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008145345/http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/operations-and-support/royal-naval-reserve/training-centres/hms-eaglet-liverpool/unit-information/|archive-date=8 October 2009|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The {{Sclass|Archer|patrol vessel}}s {{HMS|Biter|P270|6}}  and {{HMS|Charger|P292|6}} are based in the dock. Due to tidal restrictions at Brunswick, however, the two ships spend most of their time at [[Langton Dock]] in the North dock system in order to enable them to carry out their [[URNU|''University Royal Naval Unit'']] training programs more effectively.

This and the other docks in the southern system are owned by the [[Canal & River Trust]],<ref name="CRT" /> with part of the dock set aside for moorings within [[Liverpool Marina]].

==References==
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===Sources===
*{{cite book|last1=Ashmore|first1=Owen|title=The Industrial Archaeology of North-west England|date=1982|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719008207|oclc=8555887}}
*{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/liverpoolin185900bain|title=Liverpool in 1859|first=Thomas|last=Baines|year=1859|publisher=Longman & Co.|location=London|oclc=43484994}}
*{{cite book|first1=Richard|last1=Pollard|first2=Nikolaus|last2=Pevsner|title=Lancashire: Liverpool and the South West|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780300109108|oclc=63396571}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Give a Dock a Good Name?|first1=Ken|last1=McCarron|first2=Adrian|last2=Jarvis|publisher=Merseyside Port Folios|location=Birkenhead|year=1992|pages=18–20|isbn=9780951612941|oclc=27770301}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Brunswick Dock, Liverpool|Brunswick Dock}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2a.htm|title=Liverpool South Docks diagram|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107034039/http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2a.htm|archive-date=7 January 2009}}
* [http://www.multimap.com/maps/?mapType=aerial&zoom=16&countryCode=GB&lat=53.3901278223186&lon=-2.98735932819544#map=53.39013,-2.98736|16|8&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:53.3883:-2.9833:16   Brunswick Dock aerial photo]

{{Port of Liverpool docks}}

[[Category:Liverpool docks]]
[[Category:Royal Navy bases in England]]