| Description | DM162/162/10/12/ folio 262. Letter from G. W. Bull to Isambard Kingdom Brunel relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Consideration of ship and launch report, details of steamers on Lake Erie? launched sideways, safety of method, launch, etc., of Plymouth Rock and Western World, many ships launched since 1837, practicability. 23 March 1855. [See also DM1306/11/1/2/folio 45-46].
DM162/10/12/folios 263. Letter to G. W. Bull relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Acknowledgement of Bull's information, size and weight of ship, requirement of knowledge of launching difficulties, enquiry as to inclination, number, etc., of ways, start of launch, cause of failures, precautions. 10 April 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 265. Letter from G. W. Bull to Isambard Kingdom Brunel relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Letter relates to details of incline and construction of launching ways, start of launch, no failures, difficulties, advantages and precautions, etc., launching of largest steamers, willingness to supply further information, etc. 30 April 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 267. Letter relating to Great Eastern Steamship. Discussion with John Scott Russell on free launch or lowering gradually, ease of former, methods of lowering, details of pushing or letting ship go by short stages, hydraulic pump and cables calculations, advantages etc. 8 July 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 268. Letter to John Scott Russell relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Discussion with Russell, whatever merits of launching methods the safest to be used, for lowering by degrees requirement of ship weight and rise and fall of tide, difficulty of latter, ship and ways, determination of maximum ship weight and tide range. 10 July 1855. [See also DM1306/11/1/2/folio 154-156].
DM162/10/12/folio 269. Letter to [Henry Wollaston] Blake regarding the Great Eastern Steamship. Launching question to be settled, possibility of gradual launch by American method, economy, expense and slowness of Brunel's plan, agreement with Russell as to safest and surest launch. 15 July 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 270. Letter relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Memorandum of matters to be considered, mode of launching, ways and cradles, sketch to be prepared, weight of ship, engines and boilers to be calculated. 24 July 1855. [See also DM1306/11/1/2/folio 177-179].
DM162/10/12/folio 270. Letter to the Directors [of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company] relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. The letter relates to the launching arrangements being settled. 24 July 1855. [See also DM1306/11/1/2/folio 173-175].
DM162/10/12/folio 270. Letter to John Scott Russell relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Launching arrangements required to be forwarded. 10 August 1857.
DM162/10/12/folio 270. Letter to John Scott Russell relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Requirement of position of centres of gravity, criticism of Russell's lack of precise knowledge, etc., influence on launching arrangement. 23 August 1855. [See also DM1306/11/1/2/folio 205-209] |