Sujet

Ice-Breaking Ferry "Baikal", 1899. Creator: Akselrod.

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Ice-Breaking Ferry "Baikal", 1899. This album of six photographs depicts the launch of the icebreaking ferry Baikal at the village of Listvenichnoye on the western shore of Lake Baikal on June 17, 1899. Before completion of the Circum-Baikal Railway in 1905, the lake marked a break in the Trans-Siberian Railway linking European Russia with Vladivostok. To connect the western and eastern portions of the railroad, the committee in charge of the Trans-Siberian decided to purchase an icebreaking ferry capable of shuttling passengers and railroad cars across the lake in winter. A contract was placed with the shipbuilding firm of V.G. Armstrong and Company in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The icebreaker was transported in sections from Newcastle to Listvenichnoye, where it was assembled in 1898-99. Located in eastern Siberia near the Russian border with Mongolia, Lake Baikal is 636 kilometers long; its average width is 48 kilometers (80 kilometers at the widest point).

Date

1899

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A02_157

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,6Mo (1,9Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,0cm / 4960 x 3778 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation England wood people library historical railways boat boats industry country shore lake pier ship ships British geography railway color siberian industrial photography ferry wooden location century vintage Russia Russian Britain photograph icebreaker concept Hull photo shipyard shipbuilding B&W Siberia Library of Congress ship building Lake Baikal assembling Colour 19th century water transport Newcastle-upon-Tyne black & white black and white background people B W assembled white and black 1890s nineteenth century Irkutsk history historic geographical feature Rossiya TGN photograph Armstrong Whitworth Trans-Siberian Railway Congressional Library baikal Heritage Art 19th-century still image Armstrong Whitworth Armstrong Whitworth & Co Meeting of Frontiers rift lake Listvenichnoye Sakhalin Oblast SS Baikal Akselrod Aksel'rod V.G. Armstrong and Company Armstrong and Company