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GoogleMaps satellite 3D shows a huge amount of rebuilding, renewal, and reclamation - www.google.com/maps/@53.3384029,-6.2138665,796a,35y,345.7...

Of interest, the history of Alexandra Basin - www.coastal.ie/coastal-education-news/finding-dublins-dee...

The man behind it, Bindon B. Stoney in the 1901 census as Civil Engineer. From the dib we learn he had other interests: After attending TCD, where in 1850 he obtained his BA and a diploma in civil engineering with distinction, he immediately joined his elder brother at the observatory of William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse (qv), at Parsonstown (Birr) to assist with astronomical observations using what was then the world's largest telescope. Stoney improved the known delineation of nebulae and determined the spiral nature of the great nebula in Andromeda.

Interesting family, from Wikipedia His brother was the physicist George Johnstone Stoney known for coining the term electron for the fundamental unit of electricity.

At the bottom edge appear to be two tugs (to my untrained eye). A picture in the Irish Independent on Wednesday 21 March 1956 shows "The British steamer Cotopaxi being taken from her berth at Alexandra Basin by the Port tug Coliemore after she had discharged the general cargo she had brought from South America. " Online info and photos of the Dublin tug Coliemore are of a different vessel (built 1962).

I had this ready to post but I had forgotten that the following related photo had already been posted. Your comments on this photo are still welcome.

Looks like it's probably down here on Pigeonhouse road maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,719062,733954,11,9.

Presumably that's a pile of the tobacco leaf itself (removed from the barrel) on the slip way?

They probably used it to make JP Navy Cut Extra Salty.

derangedlemur Did they not know that flavoured tobacco is on its way to being outlawed? I found this in the Indo from Tuesday 17 May 1921: www.flickr.com/photos/20727502@N00/27127766860/ And this from the Examiner on Monday 16 May 1921: www.flickr.com/photos/20727502@N00/27369909746/

According to wikipedia, F215 in 1960 would have been: F215 Graf Spee (the former HMS Flamingo) (1959–67)

She was sold to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, where she was renamed "Graf Spee" and used as a cadet training ship... During her service she undertook a series of training trips abroad , often with her ​​sister ship "Hipper" they i.a. repeatedly resulted in American port cities , from Victoria ( British Columbia ) in the north to Valparaiso and to Cape Horn in the South Pacific .

S. also www.bundesarchiv.de/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/bilder_dokumen... The Graf Spee was in Dublin together with the Hipper (F214) The ships returned to Germany on June 17, 1960 www.facebook.com/marinekalendarium/photos/pcb.76713335338...

I think the building behind the bow of the ship is Ringsend Tech which we saw last week. www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/30691019416/in/dateposted/

Irish Times 8th June 1960