Part of the
Acorn Archive
Hearts of Oak
Coaling & Depot
Ships
Swan, Hunter
& Wigham Richardson Ltd
The Temperley
Transporter Company and Appleby’s Ltd
Proposed Coal Depot for Marseilles Coal Depot No 1 – Portsmouth – 1903
Coal Depot No 2 – Portsmouth – 1905 Coaling Barges
Colliers, Coaling and Temperley
Transporters
Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson
– The Times 1909
Were the Admiralty Coal ships “the
King’s Ships”? SS KHARKI 1905
Pages under
construction
According to the correspondence, coaling was rather more
of a science than first meets the eye;
let alone the design features of the Temperley
Transporter itself,
which had revolutionised, and ensured a faster safer
method of, coaling ships.
Illustrations from The Temperley Transporter Company’s
Letterhead.
Source : Swan Hunter Collection
2007 - This
collection is not yet open for public use because it has not been catalogued.
With many thanks to Colin Boyd of Tyne & Wear
Archives
www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk
Raymond
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