The Liverpool Dock Engineers is the first book to be written specifically on dock engineers and their work. Using the Mersey Docks and Harbour archive, Adrian Jarvis reveals more detail of dock engineering work at every level, the theory and the practice, the site management and working methods, than has been possible before. Particular attention has been paid to 'finding' the usually neglected men at third and fourth tiers in the structure who were key figures in every engineering organisation or project. By the time A. G. Lyster retired as Engineer-in-Chief in 1913, dock engineering embraced such a range of specialisms that it was no longer possible for one man to do as Hartley had done and master every aspect of it. The days of his degree of integration were numbered, but while they lasted the development of dock engineering was almost synonymous with the work of the Liverpool dock engineers.