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A contract between the East and West India Dock Company and Messrs Hunter & English for the construction of a central ladder dredger, dated 10th May 1883. There is also a specification for the dredger and instructions that it should be supplied for the dock company's extension at Tilbury. In addition to this there is a drawing giving a general arrangement of the vessel. There is a handwritten note on the front stating that this referrers to the dredger Tilbury.

Contract between Messrs Hunter & English and The East and West India Dock Company for a central ladder dredger

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Contract betweem The East and West India Dock Company and Messrs John Abbot & Company Limited for the construction of five wrought iron buoys, mooring chains and screw piles

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Bond between Walter Hunter Esq, James Bernard Hunter Esq, A.H. Baker Esq, J.W. Douvia Esq and The East & West India Dock Company Bond for performance of a contract to construct a floating crane

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Contract between John Abbot & Company Limited and The East and West India Dock Company for the supply of mooring rings

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Contract between Messrs I & G Rennie and The East and West India Dock Company for six iron mud carrying barges

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Contract between The Haslam Foundry and Engineering Company Limited and the East & West India Dock Company for the construction and erection of dry air refrigerating machines

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Contract between Messrs Hunter & English and The East and West India Dock Company for a floating crane

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Agreement between The East and West India Dock Company and Day, Summers and Company for an iron screw tug boat

An agreement between the East and West India Dock Company and Messrs Day Summers and Company for the supply of an iron screw tug boat, dated 23rd October 1885. Also included are two specifications, the first relating to the construction of the vessel and the second the construction of its steam engines. There is a handwritten note on the front stating that this became the tug Hornet and that it was scrapped in 1924.

Agreement between the East & West India Dock Coy and Messrs Day, Summers and Co for the supply of an iron screw tug boat