nyland yard

Harald Haarfagre in drydock the Nyland yard in Oslo ca 1909. A good picture of the ship can be seen here:http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=45861 'Harald Fairhair' was a Norwegian viking king.

Wooden floating drydock in the Nyland yard in Oslo, not far from 1900 I'd say. The ship is the steamer 'Prosperos' who seem to have had a bit of trouble with the propeller or rudder.

The Nyland yard on Oslo's east side in 54. Childhood haunts; used to live a pair of kilometers upriver from here, and on Sundays we'd walk along the river watching the small clinker-built ''motorsnekkes'' undulate at their moorings. The yard is gone, the river is in a tunnel, the place is covered wi