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Latitude: 51.3955 / 51°23'43"N
Longitude: 0.5266 / 0°31'35"E
OS Eastings: 575869
OS Northings: 169304
OS Grid: TQ758693
Mapcode National: GBR PPP.FYY
Mapcode Global: VHJLV.26R1
Plus Code: 9F329GWG+6M
Entry Name: Number 3 Dry Dock
Listing Date: 13 August 1999
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378634
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476588
ID on this website: 101378634
Location: Brompton, Medway, Kent, ME4
County: Medway
Electoral Ward/Division: River
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Chatham
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Gillingham St Mark
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TQ 76 NE CHATHAM MAIN GATE ROAD
Chatham Dockyard
762-1/8/77
No.3 Dry Dock
GV II*
Dry dock. 1816-21, by Sir John Rennie Snr. Granite ashlar. Round-ended dry dock has stepped sides in two sections separated by a walkway, with a stair flights at the end, and 4 further to each side, with stone slides for goods. Inner timber gates fit into recesses in the sides, and outer caisson to W river entrance.
HISTORY: the first stone dry dock to be built at Chatham, drained by steam-powered pumps in the nearby dock pumping station (qv). The earliest of 3 uncovered dry docks, with capstans and former cannon bollards. The engineering is intermediate between Bentham's dry docks at Portsmouth, and Rennie's slightly later docks with iron gates and caissons at Sheerness (qv). Docks are the most significant structures in the operation of the Yard, determining the scope and scale of its work. No.3 dock was not only a major advance for Chatham, but was an important step in the development of the modern dry dock, at Sheerness.
(Sources: Coad J: The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Aldershot: 1989: 99-107; Archaeologia Cantiana: MacDougall P: Granite and Lime, Chatham Dockyard's First Stone Dry Dock: 1989: 173-192).
Listing NGR: TQ7586969305
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