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{{Short description|British dock}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=December 2017}}
{{Infobox docks
| name = Huskisson Dock
| image = Huskisson Dock (geograph 2065191).jpg
| caption = Huskisson Dock seen from the north side
| location = [[Kirkdale, Liverpool|Kirkdale]], [[Liverpool]], [[Merseyside]], [[United Kingdom]] 
| coordinates = {{coord|53.4316|-3.0052|display=title, inline|region:GB_scale:2000}}
| grid_ref_UK = SJ333932
| owner = [[The Peel Group]]
| operator = [[Mersey Docks and Harbour Company]]
| opened = 1852
| type = [[Floating dock (impounded)|Wet dock]]
| joins = {{ubl|[[Canada Dock]]|[[Sandon Half Tide Dock]]}}
| area = {{convert|15|acre|ha|abbr=on}}, {{convert|993|sqyd|m2|abbr=on}}<ref name="Baines1859-2-82">{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 82}}</ref>
| width_entrance = {{convert|90|ft|m|abbr=on}}
| quay_length = {{convert|1122|yd|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Baines1859-2-116">{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 116}}</ref>
}}

[[File:Dkbkpl27.jpg|right|thumb|British Empire Dockyards and Ports, 1909]]'''Huskisson Dock''' is a [[dock (maritime)|dock]] on the [[River Mersey]], [[England]], which forms part of the [[Port of Liverpool]]. It is situated in the northern dock system in [[Kirkdale, Liverpool|Kirkdale]]. Huskisson Dock consists of a main basin nearest the river wall and two [[branch dock]]s to the east. It is connected to [[Canada Dock, Liverpool|Canada Dock]] to the north and [[Sandon Half Tide Dock]] to the south.

==History==
The dock was designed by [[Jesse Hartley]] and opened in 1852. It is named after a former [[Member of Parliament|MP]] and [[Treasurer of the Navy]], [[William Huskisson]]. Initially dealing in [[timber]], it later traded in [[grain]] and provided berthing facilities for passenger ships on North American routes. The main basin was enlarged and a branch dock created in the 1860s to accommodate larger ships. The dock was expanded again at the turn of the twentieth century when two further branch docks were added by [[Anthony George Lyster]].<ref name="Trading Places Huskisson">{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history4.html|title=Trading Places: Huskisson Dock history|work=Liverpool Museums|access-date=4 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907091702/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history4.html|archive-date=7 September 2009}}</ref><ref name="Pollard2006-277">{{harvnb|Pollard|Pevsner|2006|p=277}}</ref>

===World War II===
On 3 May 1941 Huskisson Branch Dock Number 2 was the site of the {{SS|Malakand|1919|6}} explosion during Liverpool's [[May Blitz, Liverpool|May Blitz]], when 1,000 tons of explosives on board the ship were ignited during an air raid. Four people were killed and debris from the ship was strewn up to 2.5 miles away. The two ton anchor stock from the ship landed outside Bootle General Hospital, Derby Road, 1.5 miles from the scene.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.php?show=ConNarrative.153&chapterId=1197|title=The 'May Blitz' 1941|work=mersey-gateway.org|publisher=E. Chambré Hardman Archive|access-date=4 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210221/http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.php?show=ConNarrative.153&chapterId=1197|archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.diduknow.info/blitz/0000_info.html|title=Liverpool Blitz: Attacks on the docks (SS ''Malakand'' Incident)|work=Liverpool Museums|access-date=21 December 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050208014523/http://diduknow.info/blitz/0000_info.html|archive-date=8 February 2005}}</ref><ref name="Level Two Huskisson">{{cite web|url=http://www.level-two.co.uk/report.php?locname=huskisson|title=Huskisson Dock|work=Level 2: Urban exploration|access-date=28 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001729/http://www.level-two.co.uk/report.php?locname=huskisson|archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref>

===Late 20th century===
[[File:Liverpool, Tate and Lyle overhead sugar conveyor - geograph.org.uk - 471303.jpg|thumb|left|The conveyor to the sugar silo, and [[Tate & Lyle Sugar Silo|the silo]] beyond]]

Largely destroyed by the ''Malakand'' explosion, Huskisson Dock was rebuilt after the [[World War II|War]]. The [[Tate & Lyle Sugar Silo]] was built nearby, but on the opposite side of the [[Regent Road, Liverpool|Dock Road]], and so was linked by an overhead conveyor.

Huskisson Branch Dock Number 2 was subsequently filled in and is now the site of a timber yard. Huskisson Dock remains in use, handling general bulk cargoes.<ref name="Trading Places Huskisson" /><ref name="Level Two Huskisson" />

Up to the 1960s [[Cunard]] liners would berth mainly in Huskisson Dock.<ref>{{cite web |title=When Liverpool ruled the waves |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2008/10/01/local_history_cunard_feature.shtml |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-gb}}</ref>

Throughout the late 1970s the [[Nigeria]]n 'river' ships (named after Nigerian rivers) were regular visitors to Huskisson Dock. The Nigerian sailors were veritable traders, loading locally purchased, second hand household appliances onto ships for sale in ports of call in Africa, en route to Nigeria.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}

== Impounding station ==
[[File:Huskisson Dock steam impounding station - geograph.org.uk - 632867.jpg|thumb|upright|Huskisson Dock impounding station]]
The impounding station alongside Huskisson Dock was a pumping station used to maintain water levels in these [[floating dock (impounded)|'floating' dock]]s.

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==References==
{{Reflist}}

===Sources===
*{{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
  |authorlink2=Nikolaus  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=56–57|isbn=9780951612941|oclc=27770301}}
*{{cite book|first=Peter W.|last=Woolley|title=Liverpool|volume=2: A Portrait of the Docks and River Mersey|publisher=S. B. Publications|year=1989|pages=38–39|isbn=9781870708173|oclc=834469835}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Huskisson Dock}}
* {{Cite web
  |url=http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2.htm 
  |title=Liverpool North Docks diagram
  |publisher=Liverpool 2007
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070330201457/http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2.htm
  |archive-date=30 March 2007
}}
* [http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=333500&Y=393250&width=700&height=400&gride=333500&gridn=393000&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=pc&pc=&zm=0&scale=5000&multimap.x=351&multimap.y=215 Huskisson Dock aerial photo]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070528142240/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/image75.html Photo: Huskisson Branch Dock No. 2 after the SS ''Malakand'' explosion.]

{{Port of Liverpool docks}}

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