Manchester Ship Canal Co
Reports on the River Mersey by Rear-Admiral T A B Spratt, Acting conservator of the Mersey: 'Report on the present state of the navigation of the Mersey, 1879' printed 1880; 'A suggestion for the improvement of the entrance to the Mersey', January 1880; 'Report on the present state of the navigation of the River Mersey, 1880' printed 1881