no.863

Building Airship Shed Cavendish Dock

1910

Cavendish Dock looking East. A large steel structure is under construction alongside the dock wall. This is the early stages in the building of the Airship shed which will be used for the construction of the airship HMA No. 1, known as Mayfly. Various cranes and lifting equipment on site, rowing boat moored to dock wall. Building to left with "Rainey Bros Contractors” painted on front. Various industrial buildings and tall chimneys probably the Vulcan Steel and Iron Works in the background.