The workshops have floating equipment of holds for the hauling ashore

Collection title

Memory of the Suez Canal

ID

BIB00018

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

1927

Production year

1927

Abstract

The archives of the Suez Canal are fundamentally interesting, both from the point of view of the history of technology and engineering, the Suez Canal was the first to have been dug by mechanical means, and that of the naval and economic history. The archive shows the launching of a 700 hp tow boat. A floating dock makes it possible to receive equipment moving up to 3000 tons. A pump barge workwhop equipped with all the relief devices to provide assistance to vessels in case of accident. It is mainly equipped with powerful pumps and equipment powered by compressed air.

Type

video

Production companies

• Association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Library footage

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Secondary themes

• Tourism and cultural sites / Urbanism and cities / Main harbours

Period of events

• From 1925 to 1950

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Port-Fouad

Original language

French

Media running time

2m19

Additional information

With the kind permission of the association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal.