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Ref No	DM1306/11/1/5/folio 346-347
Title	Letter from Major General P. Faddy of the Royal Artillery to Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Description	Written from Mont le Grand near Exeter. The letter offers Faddy's suggestion as to how to launch the Eastern Steam Navigation Company's ship which is to use 60 of General Blanchard's Cylindrical Pontoons under the ship, covered with baulks of hardwood which will, when high tide comes, lift the ship off the launching cradles sufficiently to allow her to move down the launching ways by means of Brunel's existing hydraulic presses. Faddy suggests that Brunel can acquire the pontoons from the Woolwich or Chatham dockyards.
Date	21 December 1857
Format	Manuscript volume
Extent	2 pages
Access Conditions	This material is held at the Brunel Institute - please contact the Brunel Institute to arrange access.

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