The "Great Britain" Steamship - 1847

For sale is a 2 page article with engravings - The "Great Britain" Steamship

Engravings:

1. The "Great Britain" beginning to rise
2. Elevation of Captain Claxton's Breakwater
3. The Bows of the "Great Britain"
4. Mr Bremner's Breakwater
5. Cutting the Trench in the Sand
6. Side and Front view of Sand-Boxes
7. The Bows, showing how the cross wedges work
8. The Shores, and how worked, so as to follow the rising of the Ship
9. The Bilge Wedges, and how worked
10. Shoot, for conducting stones under Ship's bottom

These pages have been removed from an issue of The Illustrated London News, August 21, 1847

Condition is very good