United States Men-Of-War passing through a lock, Panama Canal, Panama mb-code U84977INP September 18

September 18

'Charterhouse Square'

A print from The Story of Seventy Momentous Years

Richard Wadding seen here at work at the cottage cooperage at Killinick in County Wexford

United States Men-Of-War passing through a lock, Panama Canal, Panama mb-code U84977INP September 18United States Men Of War passing through a lock, Panama Canal, 1926. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was first planned by the French civil engineer and builder of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps. The French began work in 1880, but 9 years later the difficulties posed by the terrain, disease and spiralling costs doomed the project to failure. The United States bought the land in 1904 for $40 million, and