SS Great Western of 1838, was a wooden-hulled paddle-wheel steamship with four masts, the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic, and... 13 KB (1,279 words) - 23:36, 6 March 2024 |
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... 1 KB (191 words) - 15:33, 19 January 2024 |
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... 66 KB (8,519 words) - 23:12, 23 April 2024 |
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... 21 KB (2,201 words) - 18:40, 5 March 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,089 words) - 21:47, 14 June 2023 |
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... 3 KB (421 words) - 21:26, 30 June 2023 |
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... 7 KB (895 words) - 12:37, 30 June 2023 |
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... 73 KB (7,530 words) - 01:50, 25 April 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,716 words) - 20:12, 10 March 2024 |
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... 47 KB (5,773 words) - 19:37, 9 April 2024 |
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... 82 KB (7,831 words) - 22:10, 19 April 2024 |
Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS) main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy... 139 KB (17,507 words) - 18:42, 23 April 2024 |
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... 23 KB (2,847 words) - 08:48, 18 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,309 words) - 21:02, 10 March 2024 |
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... 5 KB (588 words) - 06:21, 6 April 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,382 words) - 12:01, 29 March 2024 |
Shed, Pyronaut and Mayflower adjoining Prince Street Bridge Dry docks: SS Great Britain, the Matthew St Augustine's Reach, Pero's Bridge Bathurst Basin... 31 KB (3,645 words) - 18:38, 21 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,217 words) - 04:07, 23 November 2023 |