| Description | DM162/162/10/12/ folio 271. Letter to the Directors [of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company] relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Commencement of preparation for launch, consideration, original plan most satisfactory, previous similar launches in England but not for large ships, report publication, American interest, correspondence from Bull, practicability, method proved in practice, etc., acknowledgement of American claims to invention. 26 September 1855. [See also DM1306/11/1/2/folio 243-245].
DM162/10/12/folio 272. Letter to John Scott Russell relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Launching plans to be determined, deferred too long. 5 October 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 272. Letter to W. Jacomb relating to the Great Eastern steamship. Inability to work out launching arrangements without centres of gravity, etc., calculations. 15 October 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 272. Letter to John Scott Russell relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Request for reference to previous letters and memoranda, settlement of launching method, requirement of construction plans of ways, mode of sliding ship down, works of former to have been commenced, cost estimate required, payments to Russell according to plans and work, requirement of weights, centres of gravity before approving ways, strain on upper works, additional iron for such. 18 October 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 273. Letter to John Scott Russell relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Requirement of launch plans drawn and settled, readiness to again explain views, plans to be prepared and work commenced. 20 November 1855.
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 274. Letter to John Scott Russell relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Memoranda including supporting the ship at two points and moving down on two ways, extension of former, total weight, pressure on ways, weight to be under bulkheads and bilge and ship's side, construction for effecting latter, dimensions, calculations, etc., of ways and cradle, necessity of accurate ship's weight, draft, even keel, centre of gravity, floatation centre calculations, lightening of ship, no masts, paddles, etc., request for cradle and ways plans settlement, consideration of such but wish to consider Russell's plan, etc. 30 November 1855.
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 277. Letter to John Scott Russell regarding the Great Eastern steamship. Request for floatation centre position calculation and testing without delay, anxiety as to launch, launching weight and centre of gravity calculated but Russell's ability for floatation calculation better than Brunel's etc. 2 December 1855. [See also DM1306/11/1/3/folio 13-14].
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 278. Letter to William Jacomb relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Request for tide and winds data, floatation recalculation requested from Russell, enquiry as to calculations by Jacomb and Brunel for checking, details and requirements for latter, floatation centre and variation, different calculations to be made at Millwall and Duke Street, importance of latter, etc. 2 December 1855. [See alsoDM1306/11/1/3/folio 14-16].
DM162/162/10/12/ folio 279. Letter relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Design for launching, cradle and ways. 19 December 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 279. Letter to the Directors [of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company] relating to the Great Eastern Steamship. Report including Russell's suggestion of difficulty due to Brunel, desire for Directors' enquiry, statement that launching costlier than contemplated but plan unaltered, drawings made by Russell and not added to, assistance in economy, contract, launching cost, risk and contractor, modes of floating from a dock or laying ways, launching from ways agreed, ship built accordingly in 1854, nothing altered, Russell's launch appliances more extensive and costly than Brunel's, 1854 report, ship to be lowered to low water and floated on next tide, impracticability and risk of impetus launch, Russell's possible views on latter, etc. 16 January 1856. [Possibly see also DM1306/11/1/3/folio 87-94]. |