[1] After a slow start to the business and financial difficulties, Kelk and Aird surrendered control of the company to lawyers acting for the investors in December 1868.

[1] In recognition of its settled status the business was renamed the Millwall Dock Company in 1870.

[7] The Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre, located at the far West end of the dock where the dock previously connected to the Thames,[8] was established by the London Docklands Development Corporation and the Sports Council at a cost of £1.2 million in 1989.

[11] The dock was a location for boat stunts in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.

The western end of the Outer Dock was originally connected to the Thames at Millwall by an 80 ft (24 m) wide channel.