File:The cable passed from the works into the hulk lying in the Thames at Greenwich RMG PU6188.jpg
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Summary
| Author |
Day and Son (engravers); Jones, F (engraver); Robert Dudley (artist) |
| Description |
English: The cable passed from the works into the hulk lying in the Thames at Greenwich This print depicts the 'Amethyst' hulked. The image relates to the transatlantic cable manufactured at East Greenwich for loading into the 'Great Eastern' and is from the original account of the laying of the cable in the 1860s, which Dudley illustrated. The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, under the chairmanship of John Pender, manufactured the 1865 cable at Greenwich. After it had been made, the cable was coiled down into great cylindrical tanks at Enderby's Wharf before being fed into the ship. The '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. |
| Date | 1865 |
| Dimensions | Mount: 197 mm x 287 mm |
| Notes | Box Title: Fighting Ships 1840-1852. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/110339 |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
| Identifier | id number: PAD6188 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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| current | 19:26, 1 October 2017 | | 1,280 × 942 (1.18 MB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Fine art (1865), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/110339 #7525 |
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