Keywords: Peace (ship, 1882) - Engineering 1883-05-18.png en The shallow draught steamer Peace was built by Thornycroft at Chiswick in 1882 for service on the Congo River It was shipped to Africa in sections weighing no more than 64 pounds and it was important as the first vessel from the yard with watertube boilers They were of the Herreshoff type and John Thornycroft later 1885 patented his own design The steamer was described in the periodical Engineering May 18 1883 on page 463-464 along with this drawing on page 466 Extracted from File Engineering 35 Jan-June 1883 - Part 5 djvu Rotated cropped and lightened by uploader Unknown draughtsman of the time 1882 1883 Ships built at John I Thornycroft Company Chiswick Engineering 1883 PD-old-70-1923 |