Thompson Graving Dock
The drydock and pumphouse | |
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| Name | Thompson Graving Dock |
| Namesake | Robert Thompson, Belfast alderman |
| Cost | 350,000 GBP |
| Completed | 1 April 1911 |
| Home port | Belfast |
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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.