Sujet
Progress of the Great Ship, building at Millwall, for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, 1856. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Progress of the Great Ship, building at Millwall, for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, 1856. Scene by the River Thames in London: Brunel's SS Great Eastern, an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship, '...in progress of construction in the building yard of Messrs. Scott Russell and Co...the appearance of the ship, stretching over long rows of buildings, is most extraordinary: and great as its present length, the vessel is still growing at both the head and stern, it requiring 50 feet at one end and 70 feet at the other - in all 120 feet to complete the work...[it would] carry 800 first-cass, 2000 second-class, and 1200 third class passengers, making a total of 4000, independently of the crew. The total length of the vessel will be 692 feet'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM23A57_361
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Droits gérés
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37,1Mo (3,1Mo) / 46,6cm x 20,0cm / 5503 x 2359 (300dpi)