SS Great Eastern was an iron-hulled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the...
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SS Great Western was a wooden-hulled paddle-wheel steamship with four masts, the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic, and the initial...
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SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845...
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Great Eastern may refer to: SS Great Eastern, a steamship built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1858, the largest ship of its era Great Eastern Railway...
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British engineer, during the troubled first attempt to launch the SS Great Eastern, by far the largest ship constructed to that date. Brunel stands before...
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SS Great Western (1,340 GRT) and SS Great Eastern (18,915 GRT) were constructed in 1838 and 1858 respectively. The record set by SS Great Eastern was...
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was laid in 1865 with improved material. It was laid from the ship SS Great Eastern, built by John Scott Russell and Isambard Kingdom Brunel and skippered...
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records for tonnage outlived the ships that set them - notably the SS Great Eastern, and RMS Queen Elizabeth. The term "largest passenger ship" has evolved...
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Russell bought the works and was instrumental in building here The SS Great Eastern, where it was launched. This was a steam and sail ship designed by...
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closed in 1997. It is now an apartment complex. Pullen's model of SS Great Eastern may be seen, being part of the James Henry Pullen Collection including...
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navigation. The ship being at last completed after great delay, and renamed the SS Great Eastern, was sent on a trial trip from Deptford to Portland...
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except as references in other writings. The classic Seven Wonders were: Great Pyramid of Giza, in Giza, Egypt, the earliest of the wonders to be completed...
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some entire football grounds. In the same year the topmast of the SS Great Eastern, one of the first iron ships, was rescued from the ship breaking yard...
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wrecking ball. An early documented use was in the breaking up of the SS Great Eastern in 1888–1889, by Henry Bath and Co, at Rock Ferry on the River Mersey...
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ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. The first ship larger than SS Great Eastern by gross register tonnage (it was also 9 ft [2.7 m] longer), Celtic...
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Ireland and Newfoundland in 1858, although it later failed. In 1866, the SS Great Eastern laid out a lasting link from Waterville, County Kerry and nearby Valentia...
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Sir James Anderson (1824–1893) captained SS Great Eastern on the laying of the Transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865 and 1866. Anderson was born in Dumfries...
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel (category Great Western Railway people)
revolutionised naval engineering: the SS Great Western (1838), the SS Great Britain (1843), and the SS Great Eastern (1859). In 2002, Brunel was placed second...
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the launching of Brunel's steamship SS Great Eastern. Tangye said of the project: We launched the Great Eastern and she launched us In 1859, brothers...
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Robert Halpin (section Great Eastern)
was an Irish sea captain. He captained the Brunel-designed steamship SS Great Eastern which laid transoceanic telegraph cables. A successful pioneer of this...
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several ships INS Leviathan, several ships SS Great Eastern, a 19th-century ocean liner, once called Leviathan SS Leviathan, a 20th-century ocean liner Leviathan...
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America before misuse resulted in failure of the line. In 1866 the SS Great Eastern successfully laid two transatlantic cables, securing future communication...
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Robert Howlett (section The Great Eastern)
to document the construction of the world's largest steamship, the SS Great Eastern. He exhibited at the London Photographic Society and published On the...
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Marc Isambard Brunel (category Immigrants to the Kingdom of Great Britain)
of Brunel (father and son) and the SS Great Britain The Brunel Institute – Collaborative venture between the SS Great Britain Trust and the University of...
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bush of soft metal was fitted in the after end of the stern tube. SS Great Eastern had this arrangement fail on her first transatlantic voyage, with very...
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The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, also known as the Great Exhibition or the Crystal Palace Exhibition (in reference to the...
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HMT Empire Windrush (ex MV Monte Rosa) RMS Empress of Britain SS Great Eastern USS Henry R. Mallory SS Justicia RMS Laconia HMT Lancastria USS Leviathan (ex Vaterland)...
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press concept were applied to the successful launching of Brunel's SS Great Eastern, after two failed attempts by other means. The maximum mechanical advantage...
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Shed, Pyronaut and Mayflower adjoining Prince Street Bridge Dry docks: SS Great Britain, the Matthew St Augustine's Reach, Pero's Bridge Bathurst Basin...
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California after a 4-month 21-day journey. SS Great Eastern was built in 1854–1857 with the intent of linking Great Britain with India, via the Cape of Good...
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