Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,652 pages of information and 247,065 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.
1888 Ismay, chairman of White Star Line, proposed building merchant vessels with government subsidy to be available to the Admiralty. This resulted in the building of two magnificent liners, one of which, RMS Teutonic, was sent to take part in the diamond jubilee naval review at Spithead. Full write up in The Engineer 1890/12/19.
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