[6] Still unfinished,[5] it opened on the day of the Prince Regent's coronation as George IV on 19 July 1821.

[9] On 12 June 1895 Liverpool Riverside Station was opened, situated between Prince's Dock and the River Mersey.

The dock has been divided into two sections spanned by a pedestrian bridge[13] that was designed by the Liverpool John Moores University Centre for Architectural Research and Consultancy Unit (CARCU).

[14] By March 2009 work was completed[15][16] on a £22 million extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, providing a further 1.4 miles of navigable waterway.

The tunnel is routed beneath St. Nicholas Place and the access road for the new cruise liner facility.

The plans would allow ships carrying up to 3,600 passengers to dock in Liverpool with the facilities including dedicated passport control and a cafe.

It is hoped that a multi-storey car park and hotel will be built at Prince's Dock as part of the work.

It is also mentioned in The English at the North Pole, the first part of Jules Verne novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864).