Mast House, Blackwall RMG PU1397

Mast House, Blackwall
Print entitled 'Mast House, Blackwall'. The distinctive masting house built by John Perry beside his Brunswick Dock in about 1790 and demolished in 1862. It was a crane to put masts into ships in the dock, or take them out, a process more usually done by the Navy and elsewhere using a sheer hulk (a form of floating crane, usually on an old ship's hull). This print is from Samuel Owen's series 'The Thames', 1809-11.

Mast House, Blackwall