'Sheers in Woolwich Dockyard' Gurney & Co boats and barges on the

boats and barges on the water

c1753 with Cornhill and Lombard Street on the left

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards doing what they do best

Comedian and actor Peter Cook smoking a cigarette

'Sheers in Woolwich Dockyard' Gurney & Co boats and barges on theElevation showing sheers holding a mast stepped into a pier, with details of the iron hoops and plates. The figures are accompanied by an explanatory key. Plate 4 from the book Improvements in naval architecture, by Oliver Lang (Woolwich, 1853). The plate is headed 'SHEERS IN WOOLWICH DOCKYARD' and is inscribed below 'H. W. Hampton Del. Day & Son, Lithrs. To the Queen.' Oliver Lang (1777 1853) was a master shipwright at the Royal Naval Dockyard at