Year: 1918 Language: english Author: Collective Genre: History Publisher: Vacher @ Sons Ltd Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 48 Description: John Isaac Thornycroft had shown shipbuilding ability when aged 16 he began building a small steam launch in 1859. The vessel was named Nautilus and in 1862 it proved to be the first steam launch with enough speed to follow the contenders in the University race. The ensuing publicity prompted his father, the sculptor Thomas Thornycroft, to purchase a strip of land along the Thames at Chiswick in 1864, and that became the start of John I. Thornycroft & Co.
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A short history of the Thornycroft
Language: english
Author: Collective
Genre: History
Publisher: Vacher @ Sons Ltd
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 48
Description: John Isaac Thornycroft had shown shipbuilding ability when aged 16 he began building a small steam launch in 1859. The vessel was named Nautilus and in 1862 it proved to be the first steam launch with enough speed to follow the contenders in the University race. The ensuing publicity prompted his father, the sculptor Thomas Thornycroft, to purchase a strip of land along the Thames at Chiswick in 1864, and that became the start of John I. Thornycroft & Co.
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