The Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Avalon, 1864. 'The first of a fleet of steam-boats, which Messrs. Dudgeon, of Cubitt Town, Blackwall, are building for the Great Eastern Railway Company, to convey their traffic between the ports of Harwich and most satisfactory, as she attained a speed of fourteen knots, or seventeen statute miles, an hour. She is a paddle-wheel steamer, with no particular novelty in her construction or should be observed that she is built for mails, passengers, and passengers' luggage dimensions of the Aval
The Great Eastern Railway Company's steamer Avalon, 1864. 'The first of a fleet of steam-boats, which Messrs. Dudgeon, of Cubitt Town, Blackwall, are building for the Great Eastern Railway Company, to convey their traffic between the ports of Harwich and most satisfactory, as she attained a speed of fourteen knots, or seventeen statute miles, an hour. She is a paddle-wheel steamer, with no particular novelty in her construction or should be observed that she is built for mails, passengers, and passengers' luggage dimensions of the Avalon are: 245 ft. over all, 230 ft. on the water-line, 27 ft. beam, and 12-8 ft. depth of hold. The engines are oscillating, of 200-horse power, nominal, and capable of working separately in case of a break down. Messrs. Dudgeon are the makers both of ship and engines'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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