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|name = City Canal |image = WestindiaviewofproposalWDaniell1802.jpg |image_caption = An 1802 painting of the completed West India Docks. The City Canal is to the left of the painting. The view is looking west towards the City of London |former_names = |original_owner = |engineer = |other_engineer = |date_act = 1799 |date_use = 1805 |date_completed = |date_closed = |date_restored = |len = |len_in = |original_boat_length = |original_boat_length_in = |len_note = |beam = |beam_in = |original_beam = |original_beam_in = |beam_note = |start_point = Isle of Dogs |original_start = |start_note = |end_point = |original_end = |end_note = |branch = |branch_of = |connects_to = River Thames |locks = 2 |original_num_locks = |lock_note = |elev = |elev_note = |status = incorporated into docks |navigation_authority = }}{{City Canal map}} The City Canal was a short, and short-lived, canal excavated across the Isle of Dogs in east London, linking two reaches of the River Thames. Today, it has been almost completely reconstructed to form the South Dock of the West India Docks. HistoryThe West India Docks Act of 1799 allowed the City of London Corporation to construct a canal from Limehouse Reach to Blackwall Reach, across the Isle of Dogs.[1] It was intended to provide a short cut for sailing ships, to save them travelling around the south of the Isle of Dogs to access the wharves in the upper reaches of the river. If winds were unfavourable, this journey could take some time. The idea had been suggested by Ralph Walker in 1796. The West India merchants employed him as an engineer, and with assistance from William Jessop, John Foulds and George Dance, who was the City of London's surveyor, he produced the detailed plans which enabled the Act of Parliament to be obtained. Jessop was appointed as engineer with Walker as resident engineer, in August 1799, but Walker departed in 1802 after a disagreement with Jessop following a structural failure of part of the works.[2] The canal was {{convert|3710|ft|m}} long with a surface width of {{convert|173|ft|m}} and a depth of {{convert|45|ft|m}}. The two locks were {{convert|193|by|45|ft|m}}, with the floors built as inverted arches. The lock walls were {{convert|6|ft|m}} thick, built of bricks with a stone facing. The depth over the lock cills varied between {{convert|20|and|24|ft|m}} at high tide, allowing ships of up to 500 tons burden to use the canal. Banks {{convert|12|ft|m}} high had to be built, because the high tide level was above that of the surrounding land, and the tops were {{convert|6|ft|m}} above water level. The surrounding land also had to be raised to the same height.[3] One of the major contractors was John Dyson Jr., who was based at Newington near Bawtry in South Yorkshire at the time. He was awarded a contract for excavation of the canal in 1800, and another for gravel extraction from 1801 to 1805. A third contract, for excavation of the west lock was awarded in 1803. He was working on the lock walls in December 1802, and had moved his family to Mile End by this date.[4] John Torr Foulds acted as assistant engineer for part of this period, from 1800 to 1802.[5] James Spedding was employed in 1805 to construct coffer dams to allow the wing walls at the ends of the canal to be built. A dam he had built in the previous year for the East India Dock had partially failed after four weeks, but had been repaired. The problem was one of design rather than bad workmanship, and the City Canal dam worked successfully.[6] The canal was completed in 1805 (officially opened on 9 December that year), having incorporated at its western end the Breach Dockyard, a mast and timber laying dock formed around a large linear pond.[7] The canal cost £168,813, including the acquisition of land.[8] However, access to the canal was determined by the state of the tide and the transit slow. These factors meant the canal was not a financial success since the owners did not charge tolls. It soon became a liability and was sold, for £120,000, to the West India Dock Company, owner of the adjacent West India Docks, in 1829. The company bought it mainly to prevent it from falling into other hands. Proposals for collier docks immediately south of the City Canal, and the opening of the St Katharine Docks in 1828, had heightened the company's awareness of the threat represented by other dock interests.[8] They added a timber dock to the south of the canal in 1832–3, the last major building work at the docks for 20 years.[8] Some 30 years later (1866–70), in a scheme managed by engineer Sir John Hawkshaw, the canal was enlarged, the entrances were widened, and the complex was renamed the South West India Dock,[9][10] later known as South Dock. In 1926 it was decided that the South Dock should be connected to the West India import and export docks and to the Millwall Dock.[10] The developments - a new South Dock east entrance lock and three passages to link the Millwall, South, Export and Import Docks - were divided into four contracts, and were completed in 1931 at a final cost of £1,311,981 for the dock works, considerably improving access to the docks.[8] TodaySouth Dock regularly plays host to medium-sized military vessels visiting London as it is the furthest point upstream that they can be turned around - courtesy of the reconstruction worked carried out in 1926-1931. There is no longer a route for vessels across the Isle of Dogs - only the reconstructed eastern entrance remains. Bibliography{{Refbegin}}
|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=46494 |title=The West India Docks: Historical development, Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs |first=Hermione |last=Hobhouse |year=1994 |accessdate=20 August 2007 |publisher=British History Online |ref=harv}}
|first=Sir Alec|last=Skempton |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: Vol 1: 1500 to 1830 |publisher=Thomas Telford |year=2002 |isbn=0-7277-2939-X |ref=harv|display-authors=etal}}{{Refend}} References1. ^Canals and distribution {{coord|51|30|06|N|0|01|01|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=title}}{{Unnavigable Canals of the United Kingdom}}2. ^{{harvnb|Skempton|2002|p=757}} 3. ^{{harvnb|Skempton|2002|p=370}} 4. ^{{harvnb|Skempton|2002|pp=201–202}} 5. ^{{harvnb|Skempton|2002|p=235}} 6. ^{{harvnb|Skempton|2002|p=646}} 7. ^London Thames Gateway Forum - Heritage {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20070929103135/http://www.ltgf.co.uk/content/en/heritage_details.aspx?guid=AB1D35FD-54E2-47E6-B953-FFFC031E9D7E |date=2007-09-29 }} 8. ^1 2 3 {{harvnb |Hobhouse |1994 |pp=248–68}} 9. ^West India Docks (1803-1980) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926230017/http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conFactFile.83/outputFormat/print/West-India-Docks.html |date=2007-09-26 }} 10. ^1 Building the docks 8 : History of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets|London docks|Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets|Canals in England|Canals in London|Port of London|Canals opened in 1805|1805 establishments in England |
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