| Description | DM162/10/12/folio 82. Letter from Captain Claxton to I. Brunel relating to the Floating gun. Brunel's planning of breach [breech?] and smooth bored muzzle loading gunboat invulnerable to enemy fire, wood and iron construction, bomb proof covering, draft, etc., Claxton's confidence in vessel, criticism of previous gun and mortar boats, Palmerston informed by Claxton due to Brunel's dislike of Admiralty officials, meeting with Sir Charles Wood, Baldwin Walker, peace declared and model retrieved, action of gun, machine loading and engine, etc., 22 January 1863.
DM162/10/12/folio 86. Letter from Sir John F. Burgoyne to Isambard Kingdom Brunel relating to the floating gun. Meeting with Brunel, Palmerston informed that suggestions valuable and worthy of trial, difficulty of Brunel's position with Admiralty but hope of arrangement for considering latter's views then direction of construction, etc., at private yards without interference, etc. 28 December 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 88. Letter from Sir John F. Burgoyne to Isambard Kingdom Brunel relating to a floating gun. Requirement of systems not shewn on model of openings from below to deck, hood and invulnerability, bulwarks on deck, compass arrangements, desire for trials of Brunel's novel and clever ideas, etc. 27 December 1855.
DM162/10/12/folio 90. Letter from W. G. Armstrong to Isambard Kingdom Brunel relating to a large gun. Sending to Brunel of design details including maximum explosion force, shot velocity force, breech, etc., calculations, construction of breech, trunnions, wedge and stop piece, weight, etc. 8 January 1856. |