Mort's Dock is a former dry dock, slipway, and shipyard in Balmain, New South Wales, Australia. It was the first dry dock in Australia, opening for business in 1855 and closing more than a century later in 1959. The site is now parkland.
Vessels at Mort's Dock, Sydney Harbour, 1908
Mort’s Dock at Waterview Bay, Balmain, c. 1860, by William Hetzer
Mort’s Dock at Waterview Bay, Balmain, 1887
Workers at Mort's Dock lay the keel plate for a new vessel shortly after HMAS Deloraine was launched in 1941.
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort was an Australian industrialist who improved the refrigeration of meat. He was renowned for speculation in the local pastoral industry as well as industrial activities such as his Ice-Works in Sydney's Darling Harbour and dry dock and engineering works at Balmain.
T S Mort's Statue, Macquarie Place, Sydney photographed about 1900–1910