Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,645 pages of information and 247,064 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Hewett and Co (of Barking)

From Graces Guide

of Barking Creek. Steam trawler makers and owners

1899 Disastrous boiler explosion on 6 January at the ship repair yard, by which ten persons lost their lives, and a number of others were injured, some very seriously. It was the subject of a formal investigation by the Board of Trade under the Boiler Explosions Act, 1882. The proceedings were described at length in Engineering.[1]

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