Barry Dock No. 1

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The No.1 dock, the first dock that was built, is 3,400 by 1,100 feet (1,040 by 340 m) and covers about 70 acres (28 ha). The western end of the first dock is divided into two arms by a projecting Mole. No. 1 dock has a full width of 1,600 feet (490 m) at the eastern end, so the largest vessels could swing even when the tips and quays were fully occupied.[49] There was a 700 by 100 feet (213 by 30 m) graving dock (dry-dock) at the north-east corner of this dock but due to the Waterfront development in the 1990s, this has been filled in. This commercial graving dock was capable of handling the largest vessels of the day.[50] In 1893, to the east of this, there was a timber pond of 24 acres (9.7 ha) connected to No.1 dock by a short channel almost parallel with the then existing dry-dock but this link was later severed and part of its length converted to another dry-dock and the pond beyond dispensed with and filled in to make way for the necessary high-level rail viaducts and embankments run to the No.2 dock coal hoists. The remaining dry-dock, minus its floatable caisson, is still flooded with the waterline commoned with that of the two docks (July 2017).