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Chatham Dockyard Extension, 1868, 1870

Catalogue reference: MS 3147/5/651/f

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This record is a file about the Chatham Dockyard Extension, 1868, 1870 dating from 1868 - 1870.

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MS 3147/5/651/f
Title
Chatham Dockyard Extension, 1868, 1870
Date
1868 - 1870
Description

Dock and Harbour Engines (3 items).

Four vertical engines. Engines never built.

Transverse section of engines and pump wells, 5 Aug. 1868; unmarked pencil elevations of a vertical pumping engine; penstock for sluices between rump wells, Apr. 1870.

For the Admiralty. Pumping engines, Chatham Dockyard Extension. The Admiralty originally invited tenders for four pumping engines for the Chatham Dockyard Extension in Jul. 1868, and James Watt & Co. duly submitted a tender for four vertical engines. However the Admiralty decided to re-use two high pressure horizontal engines which had originally been fitted in H.M.S. Forth, and the specification was duly revised. James Watt & Co. tendered for the revised pumping machinery and the dock sluices in Jun. 1869.

See also: Portfolio 6/24a.

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Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
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Chatham Dockyard Extension, 1868, 1870