Thompson Graving Dock

The drydock and pumphouse
History
United Kingdom
NameThompson Graving Dock
NamesakeRobert Thompson, Belfast alderman
Cost350,000 GBP
Completed1 April 1911
Home portBelfast
General characteristics (as completed)
Length
  • 886 ft 6 in (270.2 m) (maximum)
  • 850 ft (259.1 m) (standard)
  • 900 ft (274.3 m) (coping)
Beam
  • 96 ft (29.3 m) (entrance)
  • 100 ft (30.5 m) (floor)
  • 128 ft (39.0 m) (top)
Draft
  • 33 ft 9 in (10.3 m) (flood)
  • 42 ft 6 in (13.0 m) (coping)

Thompson Graving Dock is a large graving dock and tourist attraction in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is primarily known as the dry dock where Titanic was finished before she left Belfast for her maiden voyage. It is also known as Thompson Dry Dock, or simply Thompson Dock.

Thompson Graving Dock was built to enable the Belfast shipbuilding industry to conveniently finish the construction of larger ocean liners than those that had been in use up till then.