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    Image number: RS.10557
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    ‘Sheers in Woolwich Dockyard’

    Date
    1853
    Creator - Organisation
    Day & Son, Lithographers
    After
    H W Hampton , Draftsman
    Object type
    Library reference
    47871
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 255mm
    width (print): 140mm
    Subject
    Description
    Elevation showing sheers holding a mast stepped into a pier, with details of the iron hoops and plates. The figures are accompanied by an explanatory key.

    Plate 4 from the book Improvements in naval architecture, by Oliver Lang (Woolwich, 1853).

    The plate is headed ‘SHEERS IN WOOLWICH DOCKYARD’ and is inscribed below ‘H.W.Hampton Del. Day & Son, Lithrs. To the Queen.’

    According to the accompanying text the author “Proposed in May, 1831, to fit and erect double sheers on the basin river wall, for masting and unmasting ships, either in the basin or without in the river; likewise for placing the engines and boilers in steam vessels...they were completed in 1833, and are found to answer well on all occasions... ”

    Oliver Lang (1777-1853) was a master shipwright at the Royal Naval Dockyard at Woolwich.
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