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Dry Dock
| Historic Site #: | 05-051 (Exists) Type: I1 | Town: | Lyons | ||
| Site Name: | Dry Dock | GPS Coordinates: | 43.062474, -77.018583 | ||
| Address: | 22 Dry Dock Rd. Lyons NY | ||||
| Description: | |||||
| The Dry Dock is located between Lyons and Newark next to Lock 28A | |||||
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| Photo from Travels of Tug 44 web site. Right next to the lock is a major Canal Corp repair facility and drydock. Here, barges and boats have their bottoms repaired. The photo shows a massive crane barge. |
| Historic narrative: | |||||
| Alongside Erie Canal Lock E28B at Lyons is a Canal Corp Drydock, one of two on the canal system. It is an excavated pit about triple the size of the lock, and is used for maintenance on Canal Corp boats as well as winter storage. The drydock has a set of canal gates, same as the locks have. On the other end is a drain valve. The gates are opened, a boat is floated in, then the gates are closed and the drain is opened, leaving the boats high and dry with their hulls accessible for repair or maintenance. | |||||
Travels of Tug 44 web site.
Travel of Tug 44 web site Lyons Dry Dock Page