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The SS Great Eastern is the subject of the Sting song, "Ballad of the Great Eastern" from the 2013 album The Last Ship. The history of the SS Great Eastern is chronicled in detail in James Dugan's non-fiction book The Great Iron Ship. [15] An Atlantic crossing on the SS Great Eastern is the backdrop to Jules Verne's 1871 novel A Floating City
Pullen's masterpiece is a model ship, a 10-foot long replica of SS Great Eastern, [3] that he started in 1870 and spent seven years building; Pullen made all the details, including 5,585 rivets, 13 lifeboats and interior furniture in miniature, himself. In its maiden voyage the model ship sank for lack of buoyancy but Pullen repaired that flaw ...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern is a photograph taken by Robert Howlett in November 1857. It shows Brunel, the 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 a drum of chain used during ...
The presence of these metal ship models in the Bassett-Lowke war time model ship catalog can be explained by the following: Derek Head describes on page 11 of his book that at beginning of World War One, government censors prohibited Bassett-Lowke from selling or advertising their line of detailed 100 ft. to 1 inch or 1/1200 scale models of the ...
Pages in category "Ships of the Great Eastern Railway" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
In the following years he was appointed to superintend the arrangements for internal accommodation and 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 Roads. Off Hastings on 9 September 1859, a terrific explosion of steam killed ten of the ...
Original – Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern, 1857 Reason Renominating this. It was nominated previously but it needed restoration. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a renowned engineer of the industrial revolution, at the launching of SS Great Eastern (ship designed by him) in 1857. An iconic image of ...