| Description | DM162/10/12/folio 32. Letter from John H. Yates to Isambard Kingdom Brunel relating to the Great Ship Company. Sending to Brunel of Directors' resolution and proposed prospectus including Brunel's name, request for reply. 13 November 1858.
DM162/10/12/folio 32. Letter from John H. Yates to Isambard Kingdom Brunel relating to the Great Ship Company. Directors' resolution requesting Brunel to be engineer to the Company. 13 November 1858.
DM162/10/12/folio 32. Letter to John H. Yates relating to the Great Ship Company. Acceptance of appointment as engineer, difficulty of position had other parties bought the ship and attempted to finish it, etc., difficulty of realising promises in prospectus, request for communication with Jackson. [Incomplete] 15 November 1858.
DM162/10/12/folio 36. Letter to the Directors of the Great Britain Steamship Company relating to the Great Britain Steamship. Report on the ship at Dundrum Bay, including general soundness and strength, comparison of iron and timber ships, damage to the hull, engines, cost of repair, loss by breaking up and sale, recommendation of removing to port and restoring or selling, value, requirement of protection, use of timber faggots etc., Claxton and Hosken, necessity of Directors' decision, no reliance on and difficulty of floating unrepaired on camels, etc., approval of Bremmer's assistance [See also Letter book 2, p. 310]. 14 December 1846. |