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Description: | Mounted with PAG8272.; No.5.
The hulks 'Amethyst' and 'Iris' transferred the 2500 miles (4022 km) of cable to the 'Great Eastern' as she lay at a mooring at Sheerness, an operation that took over three months.
Brunel's Great Eastern had proved an economic failure as a passenger vessel on the Atlantic routes, and was now available for charter. Her ornate fittings were stripped out, two boilers and a funnel were removed and three gigantic cylindrical tanks were installed to hold the coils of cable. The hulks Amethyst and Iris transferred the 2500 miles (4022 km) of cable to her as she lay at a mooring at Sheerness, an operation that took over three months.
Box Title: Navigation. Diving. Prison Hulks. Cranes & Cables. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | Great Eastern (1858) Day & Son Robert Dudley Thomas Picken prints Great Eastern 1858 [British] | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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