Loading Rig onto barge at Heerema's Yard, Victoria Dock, Hartlepool.
Date (of image) : 1984
Donor : Hartlepool Museum Service
Creator : Francis Elsdon
Part of the "Elsdon Collection" collection
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Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG) specializes in the engineering and fabrication of large and complex structures for the offshore oil & gas and energy-related industries. HFG offers a comprehensive range of services, including initial conception, front-end engineering, detailed fabrication design, procurement, construction and commissioning.
With three large fabrication facilities situated around the North Sea, a workshop facility in Poland and a multi-disciplined engineering company in the Netherlands, HFG has facilities to design and build large constructions in controlled conditions.
Courtesy of Heerema's website
Victoria Dock at Hartlepool was opened in December 1840. The brig Thomas Rowell was the first ship to enter and load in the new dock. The amount of tonnage shipped in this year was almost double that handled in Hartlepool the previous year. By 1851 the dock had sixteen coal drops and three steam operated ballast cranes.
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