Letter from John Fowler to Isambard Kingdom Brunel Great Ship Company Report Book, Letterbook for the Great Ship Company, the successor to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company
Номер объектаDM1306/11/1/6/folio 164
НазваниеLetter from John Fowler to Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Great Ship Company Report Book, Letterbook for the Great Ship Company, the successor to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company
Создатель John Fowler (author)
ОписаниеLetter from John Fowler to Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Great Ship Company Report Book, Letterbook for the Great Ship Company, the successor to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company
Written from 2 Queens Square Place, Westminster, London. The letter hopes that Brunel will be available to meet with Fowler and his fellow arbitrators, Mr Hawkshaw and Mr McLean on board the Great Eastern.
Great Ship Company Report Book, Letterbook for the Great Ship Company, the successor to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company. Contains copies of letters to and from Isambard Kingdom Brunel regarding the Great Eastern. This volume begins after the launching of the Great Eastern and covers the fitting out of the ship ready for her first voyage and preparations for the first voyage. The volume also touches on Brunel's last illness and the explosion of one of the ship's funnel casings during the first, trial voyage to Weymouth. The correspondence ends on Folio 214 with Folios 215 to 384 left blank.
Дата 1859-07-28 - 1859-07-28
Наименованиеletter
Наименованиеcorrespondence
Материалpaper
Техникаhand-written
Размерность
- height: 320 mm
width: 220 mm
depth: 55 mm
Кредитная линияBy Courtesy of the Brunel Institute – a collaboration of the ss Great Britain Trust and the University of Bristol