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[energyi] 07/9/2003 17:06

This is turning into a very "rich" thread.

Thnx, Phil & Willow

[philmiboots] 07/9/2003 17:03

"Phil"atelic interest (!!).....

[philmiboots] 07/9/2003 16:57

The Brunel gravestone in Kensal Green Cemetery.....

[energyi] 07/9/2003 16:24

SHARE Certificate, Link to History:


Beautifully engraved Certificate from the famous Eastern Steam Navigation Company issued in 1851. The company was chartered in 1851 the same year the certificate was issued. This item is hand signed by the company's Secretary and is over 150 years old. The certificate is embossed with the corporate seal and show an image if the famous Great Eastern Ship.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel first suggested the idea of building a giant steam-powered ship to the Eastern Steam Navigation Company. The important and profitable Far East and Australia route was dominated by the fast clipper ships which sailed via the Cape of Good Hope.

Their supremacy was assured as no steamship could carry sufficient coal on board to complete the voyage without spending valuable time in port recoaling. But a ship the size Brunel was proposing would be able to carry enough coal for the entire voyage and up to 4,000 passengers in luxury. And it would outrun the clippers.

This was no small undertaking - Brunel's estimate of the cost was £500,000 - but the Eastern Steam Navigation Company decided it was a risk worth taking. The job was put out to tender and the company accepted John Scott Russell's suspiciously low tender of £377,000 believing it had struck a bargain. In fact it was to prove the undoing of the company. Nevertheless, work began at Scott Russell's yard at Millwall in February 1854. News of the ambitious project filled the newspapers and crowds of sightseers converged on the shipyard to watch the largest ship in the world being built. The British public dubbed the new ship `The Great Eastern'.

..MORE:

[maywillow] 07/9/2003 16:17

Ah,it was the Isle of Dogs.

[philmiboots] 07/9/2003 16:12

The 'Great Eastern' under construction in Scott Russell's yard on the Isle of
Dogs, in London's East End.


The ship required three million rivets, each an inch thick, all driven by
hand by 200 rivet gangs. Each riveting squad had five members - two riveters,
one 'holder-on' and two boys ('bash-boys' - one to heat the rivets, the other to
insert them into the hole).
While the outer skin was being riveted, the 'holder-on' and his boy were
often passing whole days or weeks in the confined space between the hulls, with
little light other than that from a candle, and enduring the deafening thunder
of 400 riveters' hammers, twelve hours a day, six days a week.
Working on the site was dangerous, and during construction several workers
fell to their deaths. One workboy fell head-first from the structure, and was
impaled on a standing iron bar. 'After he was dead, his body quivered for some
time' said a witness. Another casualty was a visitor, who, 'in prying about, was
bending over the head of a pile, when the monkey came down, flattening his
head'.

[energyi] 07/9/2003 16:08

ANOTHER GREAT SHIP.. Triumph, then disaster


(thnx for the Link, Phil)

[philmiboots] 07/9/2003 15:49

Take a look at this energyi  - 
:o(

[energyi] 07/9/2003 15:48

good story & link.

ANOTHER WONDER


Brunel's design for the Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, consists of two wrought iron trusses each spanning 465 feet and weighing 1,000 tons with a clear headway for river traffic of 100 feet. The underwater portion of the central pier is a cylinder, 35 feet in diameter, and the base is 80 feet below high water. It was opened by the Prince Consort in 1859 shortly before Brunel's death and it still carries all the rail traffic to Penzance.

[energyi] 07/9/2003 15:14

"worker falling down between the Steel Sheets making up the Hull"
...
MAYBE this is why they thought the Ship to be cursed

[maywillow] 07/9/2003 15:04

Not sure of my facts so please forgive me.

One of the many accidents that ocurred whilst building this marvel of that time,was a worker falling down between the Steel Sheets making up the Hull.

Nobody heard him shouting for help.

Was it not built in one of the better London Boroughs?

No matter.

Good Luck to you with the thread and Alstom who also builds magnicient Ships.

[grupo guitarlumber] 31/8/2003 10:57

Financial Calendar

12/01/2006 FY 2005/06, Third Quarter Orders & Sales.
17/05/2006 FY 2005/06, Annual Results.
28/06/2006 FY 2006/07, Annual General Meeting.
11/07/2006 FY 2006/07, First Quarter Orders & Sales.

[maywillow] 20/7/2003 09:17

'Royal Navy sabotaged our budget'
Tom McGhie, Mail on Sunday

20 July 2003


HANGING demands by the Royal Navy over the construction of two aircraft carriers are thought to be behind claims that BAE Systems is failing to build the ships to the original budget.

Britain's biggest defence contractor was awarded the £2.8bn contract to build the 60,000 tonne carriers - the biggest warships built in the UK - six months ago. Critics in the Navy have claimed that the carriers will cost £4bn.



But Financial Mail can reveal that the original order was for two large, cheap carriers each capable of flying 48 aircraft.



According to defence industry sources, the Navy insisted on changing the specifications, turning the carriers into state-of-the-art warships equipped with advanced satellite communications and computer systems capable of working with the US Navy. The Navy says that only large and highly sophisticated carriers would give Britain the capability of influencing conflicts thousands of miles away.

[energyi] 26/11/2002 12:19

Ship photos:
(1)

(2)
Tanker

(3)
Bulker

(4)
Bulker, Large Photo

(5)
Ship Launch

(6)
Ship breaking, China

(7)
Ship breaking, India

(8)
More ship breaking

[jl202] 17/6/2002 23:37

We used to have a courier contract with UPS. Their service options are more flexible than DHL and cheaper than Fedex. The whizzbang service (Express) will refund the freight if it is late and Expedited is perfectly reasonable for less time sensitive deliveries. And you can track consignments on the internet,,

[jim21] 17/6/2002 23:21

Consignia/Royal Mail as good as any, believe it or not

jim

[jhurbanek] 17/6/2002 12:20

Thanks for the input. I have used Interlink Express who undercut Consignia by around 5% but this was for a guaranteed 2 day service against 5+ days.