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Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd, often known as Great Eastern Life or simply Great Eastern, is a Singaporean multinational insurance company and subsidiary of OCBC Bank operating in the Southeast Asia region. Founded in 1908 by Alfred Hewton Fair, it is the largest and oldest life insurance company in Singapore and Malaysia.
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 River Thames, London, England. Powered by both sidewheels and screw propellers, she was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 ...
The Great Eastern Tower (also known as Menara Great Eastern) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is the headquarters of Great Eastern Life Assurance (M) Bhd, a member of Great Eastern Holdings Ltd in Singapore. [citation needed] It is located along Jalan Ampang.
A company was formed that converted Great Eastern into a cable layer and Halpin was given the post of First Engineer. Their task was to lay a submarine transatlantic telegraph cable from Valentia Island, County Kerry to Heart's Content, Newfoundland. The cable, 2,600 miles long was stored in the ship's tanks and weighed 6,000 tons.
SS Great Eastern, a steamship built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1858, the largest ship of its era; Great Eastern Railway, a defunct English railway company formed in 1862 First Great Eastern, a defunct train operating company on the Great Eastern Main Line; Great Eastern Main Line, a British railway line
This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time. If a given ship was superseded by another, scrapped, or lost at sea, it is then succeeded. Some records for tonnage outlived the ships that set them - notably the SS Great Eastern, and RMS Queen Elizabeth.
The GER Class S56 was a class of 0-6-0 T steams designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway.Together with some rebuilt examples of GER Class R24, they passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping in 1923, and received the LNER classification J69.
The Great Eastern was a radio comedy show on CBC Radio One. It ran from 1994 to 1999. It ran from 1994 to 1999. Billed as "Newfoundland's Cultural Magazine", The Great Eastern was an hour-long summer replacement show on CBC Radio One for the first two seasons, and then became a half-hour regular show for the next three seasons.