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I wonder, would quarter of a century make it more economically viable.
In 1991 the dockyard had a floating dock and a graving dock, 8-10 large cranes, and a large pool of experienced workers to draw on.
The NS had a derelict graving dock.
Now, the dockyard has 4(?) very old cranes, no floating dock, and most of the workers are gone.
The NS has a graving dock and, from what I can tell, plenty of people who could do the job of the dockyard workers and has it's own crane.
I reckon that now it wouldn't take long to recoup the costs of repair.
Originally posted by Turkey View PostDev, economic sense might not be a factor, if Cork backyard gets redeveloped, then the dry rock will have to be reinstated. Bill the Brits, through the EU, they blew the bloody thing up, unnecessarily!
To be fair to the Brits, they destroyed very little of what they left behind and indeed left some things that were very valuable to us.
Originally posted by hptmurphy View PostShould...but haven't.....Is it viable to restore it and then employ specialists to operate it ?
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The caisson was not demolished by the brits. Indeed, the basin was used for ship repair long after the brits left. There is a photo in a book somewhere taken during the Emergency with the basin fully dry. It was in use by a private company (Haulbowline Industries, a ships breaker, who later moved to Passage west).
There are a number of books that came out recently dealing with the subject. It has a most interesting history.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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The drawings for the future park on the island shows a separate road which will internally link the ns base and basin. As the drydock is between these two locations I reckon security is not an issue. Apparently the original design for the basin had a gate at the entrance which allowed the royal navy to drydock several ships at on the time. The bottom of the basin is fully paved as well
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Originally posted by hptmurphy View PostIrish Steel and The NS worked the same site for 60 years, not really an issue.
Of course, if it was sold to a civvy business (who could compete for the dry dock tenders) that would be another matter.
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Minister visited the Island yesterday. This photo is interesting, for those of you who know the basin.
Ministers Coveney & Howlin visiting IMERC & Samuel Beckett on Haulbowline today @defenceforces @simoncoveney pic.twitter.com/6DsoDjksaP
— Val at IMERC (@ImercIreland) December 19, 2014For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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