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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
RMS Majestic was a British ocean liner working on the White Star Line's North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Liner SS Bismarck. At 56,551 gross register tons , she was the largest ship ever operated by the White Star Line under its own flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie in 1935.
The Great Western Railway's ships operated in connection with the company's trains to provide services to Ireland, the Channel Islands and France. [1] Powers were granted by act of Parliament for the Great Western Railway (GWR) to operate ships in 1871. The following year the company took over the ships operated by Ford and Jackson on the route ...
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 more of his designs and art work, in the Museum at the Langdon Down Centre, Normansfield, Teddington. [5] In 2018, Pullen's work was the subject of a monographic exhibition at Watts Gallery – Artists' Village.
In 1899, White Star Line commissioned the RMS Oceanic, which exceeded the SS Great Eastern in length but not tonnage. After Thomas Ismay's death, the order of Oceanic ' s sister-ship, Olympic was cancelled. Instead, resources were transferred to the company's new project; to build the grandest fleet of ships that had ever sailed the seas, the ...
RMS Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line.She sailed on her maiden voyage on 6 September 1899 and was the largest ship in the world until 1901. [1]
Sir James Anderson (1824–1893) captained SS Great Eastern on the laying of the Transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865 and 1866. [1] Anderson was born in Dumfries in south west Scotland and educated at the academy there. [1]
RMS City of Chester was a British passenger steamship that sailed on the transatlantic route from 1873 to 1898.. The ship was built by Caird & Company of Greenock for the Inman Line.