Sujet

New Docks and Basin, Portsmouth, 1876. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

New Docks and Basin, Portsmouth, 1876. Dockyard extension comprising '...a fitting and a repairing basin...a deep graving-dock...locks...[and] an extensive coal-store...when [the works] are completed the Portsmouth yard will be considerably more than double its original size...The repairing basin...is the most capacious and important of all the works...The walls of the basins are remarkably strong, the lower part being composed of concrete, lined with brickwork, and the upper part with Portland stone, bound or coped with granite...The works have engaged the services of from 1500 to 1600 workmen, 800 convicts, and ninety-four steam-engines, steam-cranes, and steam-hoists...The total estimated cost of the extension scheme is £2,350,000...When the various works are completed Portsmouth will possess the largest and finest naval dockyard in the world. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A81_271

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

42,5Mo (4,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 25,3cm / 4960 x 2994 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation England arts engineering industry art trade port ship ships British color hampshire industrial wharf docks dock labour war concrete location century Britain newspapers press print basin concept civil engineering repairs repair shipyard dockyard dry dock shipbuilding Navy B&W warfare ship building engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships Colour shipping Industry steamship naval warfare 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W Portsmouth white and black nineteenth century Royal Navy The Print Collector Illustrated London News steam ship TGN ILN Portsmouth Dockyard newspaper Unknown graving dock 19th-century convict labour