The stone wharf seems to have begun in 1815 and continued until about 1830. Between 1820 and 1823, a certain Busun of the yard, Francis Fox was in charge of a work force of skilled labourers known as “the King’s Negroes”. These workers were Antiguan Africans who had been liberated from the illegal slave trade by the Navy. Luckily we have seen the Bosun’s daily journal, thus some construction details have come to hand. The stone was quarried from the hill just outside the Dockyard gate, where it was fashioned and transported to the wharf side.  By 1827, the wharf was 80% complete and was finished about 1830. Considering the monumental work carried out over many  years,  we must remember and thank these people for passing on this skilled work to us, a distant generation. A part of the old wooden wharf , which had been coppered in 1784, was found under the stone wharf during restoration in 2003.