• Title
  [Cockatoo Island]
• Call number
  SPF/817
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  undated [pre 1864]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  420883
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - albumen photoprint - 11.9 x 19.7 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Circa 1858-1859, shortly after the dock had come into use, the engine house and six bays of the workshops at Cockatoo Island had been completed. It seems likely that the original lumberyard was abandoned at this time to be replaced by the new workshops, as the dock became the main workplace.
  
  By 1861 an extension to the workshops was under construction and was completed by the end of 1864. A central entrance and six more bays were added, terminating in another, separate building at the north end, identical to and balancing the engine house at the south. Photographs show that, in the process of building the extension, the roof of the workshops was altered to provide clerestory lighting, closely comparable with the steam factory at the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth. The plans of the Portsmouth building were published in 1853 in an engineering journal and clearly referenced by Mann. He remained on Cockatoo Island until 1869. A cupola over the central entrance to the Cockatoo Island workshops provided a decorative feature that was also comparable with the Royal Dockyards.
  
  Reference:
  Cockatoo Island. www.cockatooisland.gov.au (accessed September 4, 2013)
• Scope and Content
  Engine House & Workshops building (right)
• General note
  
  This photograph was donated along with other photographs dated 1858-1869 by Major Thomas Wingate
  
  See also "Cockatoo Island, H.M.S. `Galatea' in dock, Octr. 1870" (SPF/814). Note the additional section to the Engine House & Workshops building.
  Digital order no:a089817
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Topic
  shipyards
  workshops
  
• Place
  Cockatoo Island (N.S.W.)
  Fitzroy Dock (Cockatoo Island, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1230103

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