Papers concerning lightship and lighthouse installations, 1899-1933

File

MS. Marconi 247

Held at the Weston Library

Includes:

Letter, cutting and Morse tape relating to tests between South Foreland Lighthouse and East Goodwin Lightship, 1899
Photographs of light vessels at Tongue, Crosby, East Goodwin, South Goodwin and of a pilot vessel, c. 1900
Correspondence concerning the installation at Borkum Lighthouse, Germany, 1900
Papers concerning the Nantucket Lightship installation, with a photograph, 1901-4
Agreement with Trinity House for the provision of lighthouse and lightship installations, 1905
Press cuttings, extracts and releases, 1921-5
Papers concerning the International Conference on Lighthouses, including visits to Marconi premises, 1929

Dates

1 box

MS. Marconi 247

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