IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0064 GDL
Held at: National Maritime Museum
Title: Goodsall, Walter (1848-[1900])
Date(s): [1870-1884]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Goodsall | Walter | 1848-[1900] | master mariner
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Goodsall entered the merchant service in 1863 and in 1867 joined the Bombay Shipping Company as second mate. His submarine telegraph work began as Third Officer in the cable ship KANGAROO with the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, laying a cable from Singapore to Hong Kong. As Second Officer in the Company's ship VANESSA between 1872 and 1873, he participated in the laying of the duplicate Placentia-St.Pierre-Sydney cable. Late in 1873 he was Third and Navigating Officer in the Great Eastern, working on the cable from Valentia to Newfoundland. He subsequently commanded other cable ships, including the CHILTERN, which was employed in the Red Sea, 1883 to 1884.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Walter Goodsall, consisting of a biographical note of his early life and diary extracts until 1876. There is a full account for 1881. There are also logs, 1870, 1872, 1883 to 1884, and a technical pamphlet.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Please contact the Archive for further information.
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were deposited on loan by Mr R.H. Goodsall in 1965.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jun 2011.
Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26