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This dry dock is in Greenock. Work began on the dock in 1871 on the Garvel Park estate, the Garvel Point. It was opened in 1877 for the Greenock Harbour Trust, along with the Great Harbour [Greenock] (never completed). The engineer was Walter Robert Kinipple. Stone was from Craignair Quarries, Dalbeattie. The location of Garvel Park house, which survived as Garvel House, was immediately to the south of the dock and the Garvel Point headland was cut into by the construction of the James Watt Dock which made Garvel Point an island. The dock is 650ft long and 80 ft wide, with a depth of 28 ft.

With the completion of the James Watt Dock in 1886 branches from both the Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway and Greenock and Ayrshire Railway reached the dock in 1886. The south side of the dry dock was directly served by a siding from the branches.

Garvel House was to survive until 2004 when seriously damaged in a fire and demolished.

The dock is still in use today and is operated by Dales Marine .

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