Part of the Acorn Archive

Hearts of Oak

 

 

Coaling Depot Ships

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Temperley Patent Floating Coal Depot

Portsmouth – Coal Depot No 1

Swan Hunter Yard Nr 290 - built for The Admiralty in 1903

Specifications

 

Photographs by G West & Son of Southsea

Taken 18th March 1905

Note the smaller depot, to the left.

Fore

Other view of Fore

Detail of Towers

 

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 Forward