City of Cork Steampacket Company Archive Descriptive List

IE CCCA U370

City of Cork Steam Packet Co Ltd

Company Premises, Patrick’s Quay, elevation, section, and plan, with fine detail and colour, for door, arch, and two windows. Signed James A McMullen, architect, 18 Sep 1897. 50cmX37cm

Ref.

U370/H/041

Date:

1903

Title:

Map/Plan - Quays at Cork

Level: item Extent: 1 item Scope and Content: Map/plan, Quays at Cork, 1903. Purcell & Co. Includes area from Patrick’s bridge and Parliament bridge in the west to Water street in the east. 55cmX45cm

Ref.

U370/H/042

Date:

Undated [1917]

Title:

Entrance Hall, Penrose Quay, Revolving Door

Level: item Extent: 1 item Scope and Content:

Sketch titled 'Height of Revolving Door, 4 Way', with the drawing number o/3803. A note adds 'Entrance Hall, Penrose Quay'. Another note adds the name 'Sinnott' [RW Sinnott, manager]. The sketch appears to be equivalent to the height of the planned revolving door. 370cmX38cm

Ref.

U370/H/043

Date:

1900 - 1917

Title:

SS Glengarriff, Alterations

Level: file Extent: 45 drawings Scope and Content:

Bundle, Alterations to SS Glengarriff. Large set of drawings regarding alterations to this vessel, carried out by the Company's Works Department, and other engineering firms (eg, David Rollo & Sons, Fulton Engine Works, Liverpool). The drawings mainly refer to boilers, pumps, condensers, valves, and other internal fittings and arrangements. Some drawings are of works never carried out. They vary greatly in size and level of detail, most being sketches, and many being undated or unsigned. [The Glengarriff was the Company's first steel vessel, acquired in 1893 and in service up to 1924, being one of only two Company vessels to survive Word War I unscathed (Smyth, The B&I Line, p201)]

Ref.

U370/H/044

Date:

1855 (1871)

Title:

Photograph - 'Dodo'

Level: item Extent: 1 photograph Scope and Content:

298 Photograph, black and white, with caption attached: ‘”Dodo”, 1855; 629 tons; Captain Raynes. Built in Cork by Ebenezer Pike for the Cork Steam Ship Company. Taken over by the City of Cork

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