'Fitting out and repair of early steamships at the City Canal on the Isle of Dogs' in R Owen (ed), Shipbuilding and Ships on the Thames. Proceedings of a third symposium ... 2006
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- Author(s) Owen, Roger
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2007
- Pages pp159-77
- Publisher The editor
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- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Essentially about the facility established by the Birmingham firm of Boulton & Watt, initially on the Isle of Dogs and later in the East India Docks, for installation [and subsequent repair] of their engines in steamboats. Undertook business in fitting out Post Office steam packets. Includes two tables, viz: 1] 'Steamships laying up or visiting the City Canal from end of 1814 to mid August 1829' and 2] 'Vessels built or acquired by Post Office prior to being taken over by the Admiralty in 1837'