Mare and Co.'s Iron Ship-Building Works, Bow-Creek, Blackwall, 1854. Creator: Charles William Sheeres

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Mare and Co.'s Iron Ship-Building Works, Bow-Creek, Blackwall, 1854. Creator: Charles William Sheeres

Mare and Co.'s Iron Ship-Building Works, Bow-Creek, Blackwall, 1854. Shipyard on the River Thames in London during the Crimean War, ...an industrial army of between 3000 and 4000 hands, busily engaged in the construction of vessels, not only to meet the exigencies of the war, but also the demands of our increased trade...In almost every direction piles of wood of different kinds, meet the eye. There are upwards of 400 joiners employed on the premises...The saw-mills and planing-house are served with a steam-engine of 60-horse power. There are also a very large number of hand sawyers; also several blacksmiths shops in eaoh yard, in which the iron fittings of the ships are prepared...The Himalaya, of 3500 tons, which lately conveyed 2000 troops to the East was built here...Four gun-boats have been built here for the Baltic: they were of 500 tons burden each, and some of them built in the almost incredibly short time of eight weeks'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854

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