Offshore Gallery

Oil platform JLP01_10_02539

Graythorp, Hartlepool. A group of people in life jackets on the oil platform Graythorp II, seen during the float out from Graythorp.
In the early 1970s Laing Pipelines Offshore constructed the Graythorp fabrication yard and dry dock on the site of the old William Gray Shipyard. The company created a dry dock which was used for the construction of fixed platform North Sea drilling rigs for the BP North Sea Oil Project. The oil platform Graythorp I was launched on Saturday 29th June 1974 and on the weekend of 14th-15th June 1975, Graythorp II was named and floated out of the dock basin down the Seaton Channel to where it was handed over to its owners BP

© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection

USA - Fogo, from another point, Newfoundland

USA - Fogo, from another point, Newfoundland. - Fogo, from another point, Newfoundland. Fogo Island is the largest of the offshore islands of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It lies off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, northwest of Musgrave Harbour across Hamilton Sound, just east of Change Islands. The island is about 25 km long and 14 km wide.. Part of Box 160 Modern New York, Boswell collection. Date: circa 1900

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans

The Squadron under the Command of Sir J. Brisbane attacking Fort Maurigio, on 12th April

STC234779 The Squadron under the Command of Sir J. Brisbane attacking Fort Maurigio, on 12th April, 1814, engraved by T. Sutherland for The Naval Chronology of Great Britain by J. Ralfe, published 1820 (coloured engraving) by Whitcombe, Thomas (c.1752-1824) (after); Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

© The Stapleton Collection / Bridgeman Images