 The facilities incorporated many innovations of the time - the dock gates and cranes were operated by hydraulic power, and the Grimsby Dock Tower was built to provide a head of water with sufficient pressure by William Armstrong.The elegant Brixham trawler spread across the world, influencing fishing fleets everywhere.Their distinctive sails inspired the song Red Sails in the Sunset, written aboard a Brixham sailing trawler called the "Torbay Lass".