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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Great_Eastern_Rock_incident"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1</span> <span><i>Great Eastern</i> Rock incident</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Great_Eastern_Rock_incident-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cable_laying" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cable_laying"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.2</span> <span>Cable laying</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cable_laying-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Suez_Canal_concerns" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Suez_Canal_concerns"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.3</span> <span>Suez Canal concerns</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Suez_Canal_concerns-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li 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<li id="toc-In_popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>In popular culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gallery" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gallery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Gallery</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gallery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern" title="Great Eastern – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern" title="Great Eastern – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern" title="Great Eastern – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%8E%DE%B0%DE%83%DE%AD%DE%93%DE%B0_%DE%87%DE%A9%DE%90%DE%B0%DE%93%DE%A6%DE%82%DE%B0_%DE%87%DE%A7%DE%8E%DE%AA%DE%84%DE%AF%DE%93%DE%B0" title="ގްރޭޓް އީސްޓަން އާގުބޯޓް – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="ގްރޭޓް އީސްޓަން އާގުބޯޓް" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ދިވެހިބަސް</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern" title="Great Eastern – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern" title="Great Eastern – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern" title="Great Eastern – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern" title="Great Eastern – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%9F_(%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%94)" title="גרייט איסטרן (אונייה) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="גרייט איסטרן (אונייה)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern_(schip,_1860)" title="Great Eastern (schip, 1860) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Great Eastern (schip, 1860)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3_(%E8%92%B8%E6%B0%97%E8%88%B9)" title="グレート・イースタン (蒸気船) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="グレート・イースタン (蒸気船)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/DS_%C2%ABGreat_Eastern%C2%BB" title="DS «Great Eastern» – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="DS «Great Eastern»" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82_%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD" title="Грейт Истерн – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Грейт Истерн" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Eastern" title="Great Eastern – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern" title="SS Great Eastern – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="SS Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/S_Great_Eastern" title="S/S Great Eastern – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="S/S Great Eastern" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%AA%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%99" title="เอสเอสเกรตอีสเทิร์น – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เอสเอสเกรตอีสเทิร์น" data-language-autonym="ไทย" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Civil_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/56px-Civil_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="56" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Civil_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/84px-Civil_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Civil_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/112px-Civil_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span><span style="padding-left:1em"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom</a></span></th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Name</td><td><i>Great Eastern</i></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Operator</td><td>Eastern Steam Navigation Co. (1858-1864)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Port of registry</td><td><a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a>, United Kingdom</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Ordered</td><td>1853</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Builder</td><td><a href="/wiki/Millwall_Iron_Works" title="Millwall Iron Works">J. Scott Russell & Co.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Millwall" title="Millwall">Millwall</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Laid down</td><td>1 May 1854</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Launched</td><td>31 January 1858</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Completed</td><td>August 1859</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Maiden voyage</td><td>30 August 1859</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">In service</td><td>1859</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Out of service</td><td>1889</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Stricken</td><td>1889</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Homeport</td><td>Liverpool</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Nickname(s)</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>The Great Ship</i>,</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>Leviathan</i> (Original name),</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><i>Great Babe</i> (As Brunel called her)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td>Scrapped 1889–90</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Notes</td><td>Struck rocks on 27 August 1862. No larger ship in all respects until 1901 by the RMS Celtic.</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Type</td><td>Passenger ship</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Tonnage</td><td>18,915 <a href="/wiki/Gross_register_tonnage" title="Gross register tonnage">GRT</a>, 13,344 <a href="/wiki/Net_register_tonnage" title="Net register tonnage">NRT</a> <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td>32,160 tons</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>692 ft (211 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>82 ft (25 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Decks</td><td>4 decks</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td>Four steam engines for the paddles and an additional engine for the propeller. Total power estimated at 8,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower" title="Horsepower">hp</a> (6,000 <a href="/wiki/Kilowatt" class="mw-redirect" title="Kilowatt">kW</a>). <a href="/wiki/Fire-tube_boiler" title="Fire-tube boiler">Rectangular boilers</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>14 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (26 km/h; 16 mph)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Boats & landing <br /> craft carried</td><td>18 lifeboats; after 1860 20 lifeboats</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Capacity</td><td>4,000 passengers</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>418</td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>SS <i>Great Eastern</i></b> was an <a href="/wiki/Iron" title="Iron">iron</a>-<a href="/wiki/Hull_(watercraft)" title="Hull (watercraft)">hulled</a> <a href="/wiki/Steamship" title="Steamship">steamship</a> designed by <a href="/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel" title="Isambard Kingdom Brunel">Isambard Kingdom Brunel</a>, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at <a href="/wiki/Millwall_Iron_Works" title="Millwall Iron Works">Millwall Iron Works</a> on the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">River Thames</a>, 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 passengers from England to Australia without refuelling. Her length of 692 feet (211 m) was surpassed only in 1899 by the 705-foot (215 m) 17,274-gross-ton <a href="/wiki/RMS_Oceanic_(1899)" title="RMS Oceanic (1899)">RMS <i>Oceanic</i></a>, her <a href="/wiki/Gross_register_tonnage" title="Gross register tonnage">gross tonnage</a> of 18,915 was only surpassed in 1901 by the 701-foot (214 m) 20,904-gross-ton <a href="/wiki/RMS_Celtic_(1901)" title="RMS Celtic (1901)">RMS <i>Celtic</i></a> and her 4,000-passenger capacity was surpassed in 1913 by the 4,234-passenger <a href="/wiki/SS_Imperator" title="SS Imperator">SS <i>Imperator</i></a>. The ship having five <a href="/wiki/Funnel_(ship)" title="Funnel (ship)">funnels</a> (which were later reduced to four) was unusual for the time. The vessel also had the largest set of <a href="/wiki/Paddle_wheels" class="mw-redirect" title="Paddle wheels">paddle wheels</a>. </p><p>Brunel knew her affectionately as the "Great Babe". He died in 1859 shortly after her maiden voyage, during which she was damaged by an explosion.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After repairs, she plied for several years as a passenger liner between Britain and North America before being converted to a cable-laying ship and laying the first lasting <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable" title="Transatlantic telegraph cable">transatlantic telegraph cable</a> in 1866.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finishing her life as a floating <a href="/wiki/Music_hall" title="Music hall">music hall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Billboard" title="Billboard">advertising hoarding</a> (for the department store <a href="/wiki/Lewis%27s" title="Lewis's">Lewis's</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a>, she was broken up on <a href="/wiki/Merseyside" title="Merseyside">Merseyside</a> in 1889. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Concept">Concept</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Concept"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robert_Howlett_(Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel_Standing_Before_the_Launching_Chains_of_the_Great_Eastern),_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_-_restoration1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Robert_Howlett_%28Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel_Standing_Before_the_Launching_Chains_of_the_Great_Eastern%29%2C_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_-_restoration1.jpg/170px-Robert_Howlett_%28Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel_Standing_Before_the_Launching_Chains_of_the_Great_Eastern%29%2C_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_-_restoration1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Robert_Howlett_%28Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel_Standing_Before_the_Launching_Chains_of_the_Great_Eastern%29%2C_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_-_restoration1.jpg/255px-Robert_Howlett_%28Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel_Standing_Before_the_Launching_Chains_of_the_Great_Eastern%29%2C_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_-_restoration1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Robert_Howlett_%28Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel_Standing_Before_the_Launching_Chains_of_the_Great_Eastern%29%2C_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_-_restoration1.jpg/340px-Robert_Howlett_%28Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel_Standing_Before_the_Launching_Chains_of_the_Great_Eastern%29%2C_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_-_restoration1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5616" data-file-height="7334" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel_Standing_Before_the_Launching_Chains_of_the_Great_Eastern" title="Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern">The famous photograph</a> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Howlett" title="Robert Howlett">Robert Howlett</a> of <a href="/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel" title="Isambard Kingdom Brunel">Brunel</a> before the ship's launching chains</figcaption></figure> <p>After his success in pioneering steam travel to North America with <a href="/wiki/SS_Great_Western" title="SS Great Western"><i>Great Western</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/SS_Great_Britain" title="SS Great Britain"><i>Great Britain</i></a>, Brunel turned his attention to a vessel capable of making longer voyages as far as Australia. With a planned capacity of 15,000 tons of coal, <i>Great Eastern</i> was envisioned as being able to sail halfway around the world without taking on coal, while also carrying so much cargo and passengers that papers described her as a "floating city" and "the <a href="/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace" title="The Crystal Palace">Crystal Palace</a> of the sea".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brunel saw the ship as being able to effectively monopolize trade with Asia and Australia, making regular trips between Britain and either <a href="/wiki/Trincomalee" title="Trincomalee">Trincomalee</a> or Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 March 1852, Brunel made a sketch of a steamship in his diary and wrote beneath it: "Say 600 ft x 65 ft x 30 ft" (180 m x 20 m x 9.1 m). These measurements were six times larger by volume than any ship afloat; such a large vessel would benefit from <a href="/wiki/Economies_of_scale" title="Economies of scale">economies of scale</a> and would be both fast and economical, requiring fewer crew than the equivalent tonnage made up of smaller ships. Brunel realised that the ship would need more than one propulsion system; since twin <a href="/wiki/Propeller" title="Propeller">screws</a> were still very much experimental, he settled on a combination of a single screw and <a href="/wiki/Paddle_wheels" class="mw-redirect" title="Paddle wheels">paddle wheels</a>, with auxiliary sail power. Although Brunel had pioneered the screw propeller on a large scale with <i>Great Britain</i>, he did not believe that it was possible to build a single propeller and shaft (or, for that matter, a paddleshaft) that could transmit the required power to drive his giant ship at the required speed.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Brunel showed his idea to <a href="/wiki/John_Scott_Russell" title="John Scott Russell">John Scott Russell</a>, an experienced naval architect and ship builder whom he had first met at <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Exhibition">the Great Exhibition</a>. Scott Russell examined Brunel's plan and made his own calculations as to the ship's feasibility. He calculated that it would have a displacement of 20,000 tons and would require 8,500 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower" title="Horsepower">horsepower</a> (6,300 kW) to achieve 14 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (26 km/h; 16 mph), but believed it was possible. At Scott Russell's suggestion, they approached the directors of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Steam_Navigation_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eastern Steam Navigation Company (page does not exist)">Eastern Steam Navigation Company</a> with the new design plan. The <a href="/wiki/James_Watt" title="James Watt">James Watt Company</a> would design the ship's screw, Professor <a href="/wiki/Charles_Piazzi_Smyth" title="Charles Piazzi Smyth">Piazzi Smyth</a> would design its gyroscopic equipment, and Russell himself would build the hull and paddle wheel.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1854–1859:_Construction_to_launch"><span id="1854.E2.80.931859:_Construction_to_launch"></span>1854–1859: Construction to launch</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1854–1859: Construction to launch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Construction">Construction</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Construction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SS_Great_Eastern_diagram.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/SS_Great_Eastern_diagram.jpg/220px-SS_Great_Eastern_diagram.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/SS_Great_Eastern_diagram.jpg/330px-SS_Great_Eastern_diagram.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/SS_Great_Eastern_diagram.jpg/440px-SS_Great_Eastern_diagram.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1571" data-file-height="1009" /></a><figcaption>Sectional plan of <i>Great Eastern</i></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Great_Eastern_under_construction_at_Millwall_(4313594000).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/The_Great_Eastern_under_construction_at_Millwall_%284313594000%29.jpg/220px-The_Great_Eastern_under_construction_at_Millwall_%284313594000%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/The_Great_Eastern_under_construction_at_Millwall_%284313594000%29.jpg/330px-The_Great_Eastern_under_construction_at_Millwall_%284313594000%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/The_Great_Eastern_under_construction_at_Millwall_%284313594000%29.jpg/440px-The_Great_Eastern_under_construction_at_Millwall_%284313594000%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1092" /></a><figcaption>Construction of <i>Great Eastern</i>, August 18, 1855</figcaption></figure> <p>Brunel entered into a partnership with <a href="/wiki/John_Scott_Russell" title="John Scott Russell">John Scott Russell</a>, an experienced naval architect and ship builder, to build <i>Great Eastern</i>. Unknown to Brunel, Russell was in financial difficulties. The two men disagreed on many details. It was Brunel's final great project, and he collapsed from a stroke after being photographed on her deck, and died only ten days later, a mere four days after <i>Great Eastern</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s first <a href="/wiki/Sea_trial" title="Sea trial">sea trials</a>. About the ship, Brunel said "I have never embarked on any one thing to which I have so entirely devoted myself, and to which I have devoted so much time, thought and labour, on the success of which I have staked so much reputation." </p><p><i>Great Eastern</i> was built by Messrs Scott Russell & Co. of <a href="/wiki/Millwall" title="Millwall">Millwall</a>, Middlesex, England, the <a href="/wiki/Keel" title="Keel">keel</a> being <a href="/wiki/Keel_laying" title="Keel laying">laid down</a> on 1 May 1854. She was 211 metres (692 ft 3 in) long, 25 metres (82 ft 0 in) wide, with a <a href="/wiki/Draft_(hull)" title="Draft (hull)">draught</a> of 6.1 metres (20 ft 0 in) unloaded and 9.1 metres (29 ft 10 in) fully laden, and <a href="/wiki/Displacement_(ship)" title="Displacement (ship)">displaced</a> 32,000 tons fully loaded. In comparison, SS <i><a href="/wiki/RMS_Persia" title="RMS Persia">Persia</a></i>, launched in 1856, was 119 m (390 ft 5 in) long with a 14 m (45 ft 11 in) <a href="/wiki/Beam_(nautical)" title="Beam (nautical)">beam</a>. She was at first named <i>Leviathan</i>, but her high building and launching costs ruined the Eastern Steam Navigation Company and so she lay unfinished for a year before being sold to the Great Eastern Ship Company and finally renamed <i>Great Eastern</i>. </p><p>The hull was an all-iron construction, a <a href="/wiki/Double_hull" title="Double hull">double hull</a> of 19-millimetre (0.75 in) wrought iron in 0.86 m (2 ft 10 in) plates with ribs every 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in). Her roughly 30,000 iron plates weighed <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>340 kilograms (<span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">3</span></span> long ton) each, and were cut over individually-made wooden templates before being rolled to the required curvature.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Internally the hull was divided by two 107 m (351 ft 1 in) long, 18 m (59 ft 1 in) high, longitudinal <a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">bulkheads</a> and further transverse bulkheads dividing the ship into nineteen compartments. <i>Great Eastern</i> was the first ship to incorporate a double-skinned hull, a feature which would not be seen again in a ship for 100 years, but which would later become compulsory for reasons of safety. To maximize her fuel capacity, stored coal was bunkered around and over her 10 boilers; which provided steam at 172 kPa (25 PSI).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She had sail, paddle and screw propulsion. The paddle-wheels were 17 m (55 ft 9 in) in diameter and the four-bladed screw-propeller was 7.3 m (23 ft 11 in) across. The power came from four <a href="/wiki/Steam_engine" title="Steam engine">steam engines</a> for the paddles and an additional engine for the <a href="/wiki/Propeller" title="Propeller">propeller</a>. The cylinders for the paddle engines measured 1.87 m (74 in) bore and 4.3 m (14 ft) stroke. The four cylinders for the screw engine measured 2.13 m (84 in) bore and 1.21 m (4.0 ft) stroke.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Total power was estimated at 6,000 kilowatts (8,000 hp). She had six <a href="/wiki/Mast_(sailing)" title="Mast (sailing)">masts</a> (said to be named after the days of a week – Monday being the fore mast and Saturday the <a href="/wiki/Spanker_(sail)" title="Spanker (sail)">spanker mast</a>), providing space for 1,686 square metres (18,150 sq ft) of sails (7 gaff and maximum 9 (usually 4) square sails), rigged similar to a topsail schooner with a main gaff sail (<a href="/wiki/Fore-and-aft" class="mw-redirect" title="Fore-and-aft">fore-and-aft</a> sail) on each mast, one "jib" on the fore mast and three square sails on masts no. 2 and no. 3 (Tuesday & Wednesday); for a time mast no. 4 was also fitted with 3 yards. In later years, some of the yards were removed. According to some sources she would have carried 5,435 m<sup>2</sup> (58,500 sq ft) in sails.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too-vague attribution or weasel words. (September 2021)">who?</span></a></i>]</sup> Setting sails turned out to be unusable at the same time as the paddles and screw were under steam, because the hot exhaust from the five (later four) <a href="/wiki/Funnel_(ship)" title="Funnel (ship)">funnels</a> would set them on fire. Her maximum speed was 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph). She was involved in a series of accidents during construction, with 6 workers being killed.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Launch">Launch</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Launch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Life_of_Brunel_-_Fig_15_-_Transverse_Section_of_the_Cradles_and_the_Launching_Ways_of_the_%E2%80%98Great_Eastern%E2%80%99_Steam-Ship.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Life_of_Brunel_-_Fig_15_-_Transverse_Section_of_the_Cradles_and_the_Launching_Ways_of_the_%E2%80%98Great_Eastern%E2%80%99_Steam-Ship.png/220px-Life_of_Brunel_-_Fig_15_-_Transverse_Section_of_the_Cradles_and_the_Launching_Ways_of_the_%E2%80%98Great_Eastern%E2%80%99_Steam-Ship.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Life_of_Brunel_-_Fig_15_-_Transverse_Section_of_the_Cradles_and_the_Launching_Ways_of_the_%E2%80%98Great_Eastern%E2%80%99_Steam-Ship.png/330px-Life_of_Brunel_-_Fig_15_-_Transverse_Section_of_the_Cradles_and_the_Launching_Ways_of_the_%E2%80%98Great_Eastern%E2%80%99_Steam-Ship.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Life_of_Brunel_-_Fig_15_-_Transverse_Section_of_the_Cradles_and_the_Launching_Ways_of_the_%E2%80%98Great_Eastern%E2%80%99_Steam-Ship.png/440px-Life_of_Brunel_-_Fig_15_-_Transverse_Section_of_the_Cradles_and_the_Launching_Ways_of_the_%E2%80%98Great_Eastern%E2%80%99_Steam-Ship.png 2x" data-file-width="1510" data-file-height="1166" /></a><figcaption>Section of <i>Great Eastern</i> with launching cradle on slipway</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Great Eastern</i> was planned to be launched on 3 November 1857. The ship's massive size posed major logistical issues; according to one source, the ship's 19,000 tons (12,000 inert tons during the launch) made it the single heaviest object moved by humans to that point.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 3 November, a large crowd gathered to watch the ship launch, with notables present including the Comte de Paris, the <a href="/wiki/Henri_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans,_Duke_of_Aumale" class="mw-redirect" title="Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale">Duke of Aumale</a>, and the Siamese ambassador to Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The launch, however, failed, and the ship was stranded on its launch rails – in addition, two men were killed and several others injured, leading some to declare <i>Great Eastern</i> an unlucky ship. Brunel rescheduled the launch for January 1858, hoping to use the tide in the next launch attempt.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_eastern_launch_attempt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Great_eastern_launch_attempt.jpg/220px-Great_eastern_launch_attempt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Great_eastern_launch_attempt.jpg/330px-Great_eastern_launch_attempt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Great_eastern_launch_attempt.jpg/440px-Great_eastern_launch_attempt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="468" /></a><figcaption><i>Great Eastern</i> before launch in 1858</figcaption></figure> <p>In the leadup to the second launch, Brunel and <i>Great Eastern</i>'s backers gathered a significant number of chains, jacks, hydraulic rams, and <a href="/wiki/Windlass" title="Windlass">windlasses</a> to assist in launching the ship. Some were obtained from sympathetic engineers, others through returned favours, and yet more for increasing sums of money; so lucrative was renting out of supplies for the ship's launch that engineer <a href="/wiki/Richard_Tangye" title="Richard Tangye">Richard Tangye</a> was able to found his own engineering firm (Tangye & Co) the next year, remarking that "We launched <i>Great Eastern</i>, and she launched us<i>".</i><sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Advice sent to Brunel on how to launch the ship came from a number of sources, including steamboat captains on the Great Lakes and one admirer who wrote an insightful description on how the massive <i><a href="/wiki/Bronze_Horseman" title="Bronze Horseman">Bronze Horseman</a></i> had been erected in Saint Petersburg.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> High winds prevented the ship from being launched on 30 January, but the next morning a fresh attempt successfully launched the ship around 10:00 in the morning.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Eastern_painting_smooth_sea-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Great_Eastern_painting_smooth_sea-2.jpg/220px-Great_Eastern_painting_smooth_sea-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Great_Eastern_painting_smooth_sea-2.jpg/330px-Great_Eastern_painting_smooth_sea-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Great_Eastern_painting_smooth_sea-2.jpg/440px-Great_Eastern_painting_smooth_sea-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8419" data-file-height="5123" /></a><figcaption>Hand-coloured lithograph of the <i>Great Eastern</i>, as imagined by the artist at her launch in 1858</figcaption></figure> <p>Following her launch, <i>Great Eastern</i> spent a further 8 months being fitted out. However, the cost of the fitting out ($600,000) concerned many investors, who had already spent nearly $6,000,000 constructing her.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the building company already in debt, cost cutting measures were implemented; the ship was removed from Russell's shipyard, and many investors requested she be sold. As reported by the <i>Times</i>, one investor openly proposed that the ship be sold to the Royal Navy, noting if the navy employed <i>Great Eastern</i> as a ram, she would easily cleave through any warship afloat.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These efforts had mixed success, with the ship eventually being sold to a new company for £800,000, equating to a loss of $3,000,000 for investors in the Eastern Steam Navigation Company.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new company modified parts of its predecessor's design, most notably cutting the ship's coal capacity as it intended to use the ship for the American market. Fitting out concluded in August 1859 and was marked with a lavish banquet for visitors (which included engineers, stockholders, members of parliament, 5 earls, and other notables).<sup id="cite_ref-:4_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In early September 1859, the ship sailed from her dock towards the channel, accompanied by many spectators. However, off Hastings she suffered a massive steam explosion (caused by a valve being left shut by accident after a pressure test of the system) that killed five crewmen and destroyed the forwardmost funnel.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She proceeded to Portland Bill and then to <a href="/wiki/Holyhead" title="Holyhead">Holyhead</a>, though some investors claimed more money could have been made if the ship had remained as an "exhibition ship" for tourists in the Thames.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Great Eastern</i> successfully rode out the infamous <a href="/wiki/Royal_Charter_Storm" title="Royal Charter Storm">Royal Charter Storm</a>, after which it was moved to Southampton for the winter.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The start of 1860 led to a further change of ownership when the owning company was found to be badly in debt and the value of the ship depreciated by half. This revelation forced the resignation of the board of directors, who were then replaced by a third group of controlling stockholders.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the new board in place, the ship was recapitalized to raise an additional $50,000. The new board was determined to finish the ship, but also bet heavily on making large profits exhibiting the ship in North American seaports. To accomplish this, the company played major American and Canadian cities against each other, goading them into competition over which city would welcome <i>Great Eastern</i>; the city of <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Maine" title="Portland, Maine">Portland</a>, Maine (with additional investment from the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Railway" title="Grand Trunk Railway">Grand Trunk Railway</a>) went so far as to build a $125,000 pier to accommodate the ship.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ultimately New York City – which had quickly dredged a berth for her alongside a lumber wharf – was decided on as the ship's first destination.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1860–1862:_Early_career"><span id="1860.E2.80.931862:_Early_career"></span>1860–1862: Early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1860–1862: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_%22Great_Eastern%22_in_Southampton_Water_Jun_1860_-_RCIN_709614-1504619301.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/The_%22Great_Eastern%22_in_Southampton_Water_Jun_1860_-_RCIN_709614-1504619301.jpg/220px-The_%22Great_Eastern%22_in_Southampton_Water_Jun_1860_-_RCIN_709614-1504619301.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/The_%22Great_Eastern%22_in_Southampton_Water_Jun_1860_-_RCIN_709614-1504619301.jpg/330px-The_%22Great_Eastern%22_in_Southampton_Water_Jun_1860_-_RCIN_709614-1504619301.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/The_%22Great_Eastern%22_in_Southampton_Water_Jun_1860_-_RCIN_709614-1504619301.jpg/440px-The_%22Great_Eastern%22_in_Southampton_Water_Jun_1860_-_RCIN_709614-1504619301.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1908" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption><i>Great Eastern</i> in Southampton, June 1860</figcaption></figure> <p>After some delays, <i>Great Eastern</i> began her eleven-day maiden voyage on 17 June 1860 from <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a> with 35 paying passengers, 8 company "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deadhead" class="extiw" title="wikt:deadhead">dead heads</a>" (passengers who do not pay) and 418 crew. Among the passengers were two journalists, <a href="/wiki/Zerah_Colburn_(locomotive_designer)" title="Zerah Colburn (locomotive designer)">Zerah Colburn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Lyman_Holley" title="Alexander Lyman Holley">Alexander Lyman Holley</a>. Her first crossing went without incident, and the ship's seaworthiness was proven again when she easily survived a small gale. <i>Great Eastern</i> arrived in New York on 28 June and was successfully docked, though she did damage part of a wharf. The ship was received with great aplomb, with many vessels and tens of thousands of people crowding to see her. In preparation for the crowds, the crew established a bar on deck, spread sand to soak up tobacco juice, and prepared to receive thousands of visitors. However, relations between the crew and New Yorkers began to sour – the public was outraged by the $1 entry fee (similar excursion trips in New York charged 25 cents) and many would-be visitors decided to forego visiting the ship.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Great Eastern</i> left New York in late July, taking several hundred passengers on an excursion trip to <a href="/wiki/Cape_May,_New_Jersey" title="Cape May, New Jersey">Cape May</a> and then to <a href="/wiki/Old_Point,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Point, Virginia">Old Point</a>, Virginia.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this too raised issues as the ship did not have enough provisions (a burst pipe in a storeroom had ruined much of the ship's food) to make the short trip comfortable, while the ship's rudimentary bathrooms posed a sanitation issue.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duplicate tickets were sold for some berths, families were separated and remixed in improperly assigned cabins, and five plainclothes police officers (put on by New York Police Department to deter pickpockets) were discovered and chased into a livestock pen on deck.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The reason for this is unclear. (June 2022)">why?</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-:6_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After reaching Virginia, the ship steamed back to New York, and from there sailed south again for an excursion cruise in the Chesapeake bay. The ship departed for Annapolis, where it was given 5,000 tons of coal by the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_and_Ohio_Railroad" title="Baltimore and Ohio Railroad">Baltimore and Ohio Railroad</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Great Eastern</i> remained in Annapolis for several days, where she was toured by several thousand visitors and President <a href="/wiki/James_Buchanan" title="James Buchanan">James Buchanan</a>. During the presidential visit, one member of the company board discussed sending the ship to <a href="/wiki/Savannah,_Georgia" title="Savannah, Georgia">Savannah</a> to transport Southern cotton to English mills, but this idea was never followed up on.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon its second return to New York, the company decided to sail from the United States. From a financial perspective, the American venture had been a disaster; the ship had taken in only $120,000 against a $72,000 overhead, whereas the company had expected to take in $700,000. In addition, the company was facing a daily interest payment of $5,000, which ate into any profits the ship made.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hoping to net more profit before returning to Britain, the ship sailed from New York in mid August, bound for Halifax with 100 passengers. However, on approach to the port the ship was hailed by a local lighthouse service, which was empowered by law to collect a toll based on ship tonnage – given the size of the ship, the lighthouse levied a toll of $1,750 on <i>Great Eastern</i>. Infuriated by the size of the toll, a party went ashore to request that the toll be waived, but the governor of Halifax denied this request. Angered by the refusal, the captain and company leadership ordered the ship to return to Britain immediately, and as such no passengers or visitors were taken on in Halifax.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the engineering success but financial failure of the 1860 trip, the ship's ownership company again attempted to turn <i>Great Eastern</i> profitable. During the winter of 1860, Scott Russell (who had recently won a $120,000 legal judgement against the ship company) refitted the ship and repaired damage sustained during its first year of operations; during the refit, she once broke free from her moorings and cut off the bowsprit of <a href="/wiki/HMS_Blenheim_(1813)" title="HMS Blenheim (1813)">HMS <i>Blenheim</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She departed for New York in May 1861 (her other potential port, Baltimore, now considered too risky due to the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>), arriving in the port with little fanfare. Taking on a cargo of 5,000 tons of barrelled wheat and 194 passengers, she departed for Liverpool on 25 May, making an uneventful trip.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon her return to Britain, it was announced that the ship's company had been contracted by the British War Office to transport 2,000 troops to Canada, part of a show of force to intimidate the rapidly-arming United States. After a further refit to carry troops, <i>Great Eastern</i> departed Britain for Quebec City carrying 2,144 soldiers, 473 passengers, and 122 horses; according to one source, this number of passengers – when coupled with <i>Great Eastern</i>'s crew of 400 – marked the most number of people aboard a single ship to that point in history.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The voyage was a success and the ship made it to Quebec, where it took two days for the city's steamers to ferry the passengers from the ship. The crossing was made in record-setting time, taking 8 days and 6 hours. <i>Great Eastern</i>'s durable design was praised by the military officers aboard, but soon after her return to Britain the War Office discontinued the contract, and the ship returned to regular passenger service.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 1861, <i>Great Eastern</i> was caught in a major hurricane two days out of Liverpool. The ship was trapped in the storm for three days and suffered major damage to her propulsion systems; both her paddle wheels were torn off, her sails stripped away, and her rudder had been bent to 200 degrees and subsequently torn up by the ship's single propeller. A jury-rigged propeller was installed by Hamilton Towle (an American engineer returning from Austria), allowing the ship to steer for Ireland powered only by her screw. Arriving in Queenstown, (now <a href="/wiki/Cobh" title="Cobh">Cobh</a>), she was denied entry to the harbour as it was feared high winds would cause her to smash her anchorage; she was granted entry three days later and towed in by HMS <i>Advice</i>, tearing the anchor off an American merchant on her way to her berth. The only fatal casualty of the cruise occurred in port when a man was killed by backspin off the helm. Damage caused by the storm and lost revenue from the trip amounted to $300,000.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ship continued a cycle of uneventful cruises, cargo loadings, and brief exhibitions from late 1861 to mid 1862. By July 1862, the ship was turning its first noteworthy profits, carrying 500 passengers and 8,000 tons of foodstuffs from New York to Liverpool, bringing in $225,000 in gross and requiring a turnaround of only 11 days. However, as noted by sources, the ship's owners struggled to sustain this profitability as they were heavily focused on upper and middle class passenger service. As such, the ship was not used to transport large groups of immigrants travelling to the United States, nor did it take full advantage of the major downturn in the American clipper industry during the American Civil War.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1862–1884:_Later_career"><span id="1862.E2.80.931884:_Later_career"></span>1862–1884: Later career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1862–1884: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Great_Eastern_Rock_incident"><i>Great Eastern</i> Rock incident</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Great Eastern Rock incident"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SS_Great_Eastern_in_New_York_Harbor_by_Stacy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/SS_Great_Eastern_in_New_York_Harbor_by_Stacy.jpg/220px-SS_Great_Eastern_in_New_York_Harbor_by_Stacy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/SS_Great_Eastern_in_New_York_Harbor_by_Stacy.jpg/330px-SS_Great_Eastern_in_New_York_Harbor_by_Stacy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/SS_Great_Eastern_in_New_York_Harbor_by_Stacy.jpg/440px-SS_Great_Eastern_in_New_York_Harbor_by_Stacy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2092" data-file-height="2248" /></a><figcaption>Berthed at New York, 1860</figcaption></figure> <p>On 17 August 1862, <i>Great Eastern</i> departed from Liverpool for New York, carrying 820 passengers and several thousand tons of cargo – given the size of her load, she was drawing 9 metres (30 ft) of water.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After outrunning a small squall, the ship approached the New York coast on the night of 27 August. Fearing that <i>Great Eastern</i> was resting too low in the water to pass by Sandy Hook, the ship's captain instead chose the nominally safer route through Long Island Sound. While passing by Montauk Point around 2:00 AM, the ship collided with an uncharted rock needle (later named Great Eastern Rock) that stood around 8 metres (26 ft) below the surface. The rock punctured the outer hull of the ship, leaving a gash 2.7 metres (9 ft) wide and 25 metres (83 ft) long – it was later calculated that the needle was large enough to contact the inner hull, but that the outer hull and strong transverse braces had prevented the inner hull from being breached. The collision was noticed by the crew, who guessed that the ship had struck a shifting sand shoal, and after a bilge check <i>Great Eastern</i> continued onto New York without incident.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While in port, however, it was noticed that the ship had acquired a slight list to starboard, and so a diver was sent in to inspect the hull. After several days of inspection, the diver reported the large hole in the ship's outer hull, a major issue as no drydock in the world could fit the ship.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship's hull was repaired by metalworkers in a <a href="/wiki/Cofferdam" title="Cofferdam">cofferdam</a>, but cost the company $350,000 and delayed the ship's return to Britain by several months.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She would make one more trip to New York and back in 1863 before being laid up until 1864 due to her operating costs.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 1864, it was announced that the ship would be auctioned off. During the auction, four members of the company board of directors bid $125,000 for the ship and won it, thus acquiring personal control of the vessel. The group then allowed the ship company to go bankrupt, thus separating the ship from the now defunct shipping company and divesting many smaller stockholders. The ship was then contracted out to <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_West_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyrus West Field">Cyrus West Field</a>, an American financier, who intended to use it to lay underwater cables.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship's owners developed a <a href="/wiki/Business_model" title="Business model">business model</a> whereby they would rent out <i>Great Eastern</i> as a cable layer in exchange for shares in cable companies, ensuring that if <i>Great Eastern</i> succeeded in laying cables, the unprofitable ship could be personally lucrative for her owners.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Cable_laying">Cable laying</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Cable laying"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 1865, <i>Great Eastern</i> steamed to Sheerness to take on wire for the laying of the <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable" title="Transatlantic telegraph cable">Transatlantic telegraph cable</a>. In return for using the ship, her owners wanted $250,000 in telegraph company stock, but only on the condition the wire laying succeeded.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To accommodate the 22,450 kilometres (13,950 mi) of cable she was carrying, <i>Great Eastern</i> had some of her salons and rooms replaced with large tanks to hold the cable. In July the ship began laying the undersea cable near <a href="/wiki/Valentia_Island" title="Valentia Island">Valentia Island</a>, gradually working her way west at a speed of 11 km/h (6 kn). The effort went relatively smoothly for several weeks, but the cable end was lost mid-Atlantic in an accident, forcing the ship to return in 1866 with a new line. The ship's first officer, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Halpin" title="Robert Halpin">Robert Halpin</a>, managed to locate the lost cable end and the unbroken cable made it to shore in <a href="/wiki/Heart%27s_Content,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador" title="Heart's Content, Newfoundland and Labrador">Heart's Content, Newfoundland</a> on 27 July 1866.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Halpin became captain of <i>Great Eastern</i>, with the ship laying further cables.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In early 1869 she laid a series of undersea cables near Brest.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that year she was outfitted to lay undersea cables in the Indian Ocean; most of the operation's expenses were covered by the British government and banks in India, which hoped to circumvent the unreliable overland cables linking Britain to India.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In preparation for operations in the hot climate, the ship was painted white to deflect heat away from the ship's cable tanks. <i>Great Eastern</i> departed from Britain in December 1869, arriving in Bombay (now Mumbai) 83 days later to lay her first cable anchor. Upon her arrival in port, <i>Great Eastern</i>'s size generated considerable public interest, with the captain offering tickets to view the ship for 2 rupees apiece, distributing proceeds to the crew.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Departing from Bombay before the onset of the Monsoon season, she proceeded north to lay a cable between Bombay and Aden. From Aden, she laid another cable to the island of <a href="/wiki/Jabal_al-Tair_Island" title="Jabal al-Tair Island">Jabal al-Tair</a>, where a second ship rendezvoused with her to take up the cable to Suez and then on to Alexandria.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Suez_Canal_concerns">Suez Canal concerns</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Suez Canal concerns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Suez_Canal" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a>, which opened in 1869, was a setback for the ship, as at the time the channel was too shallow for <i>Great Eastern</i> to navigate. Going around Africa it would not be able to compete with ships that could use the canal. Ali Rischdi, a famed Arab navigator, proposed taking the ship through the canal, but this was never attempted.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1885–1890:_Break_up"><span id="1885.E2.80.931890:_Break_up"></span>1885–1890: Break up</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1885–1890: Break up"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Eastern_(1858)_anchored_at_Liverpool_when_used_for_advertising_Lewis%27_Department_Store,_Liverpool_RMG_P10569.tiff" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Great_Eastern_%281858%29_anchored_at_Liverpool_when_used_for_advertising_Lewis%27_Department_Store%2C_Liverpool_RMG_P10569.tiff/lossy-page1-220px-Great_Eastern_%281858%29_anchored_at_Liverpool_when_used_for_advertising_Lewis%27_Department_Store%2C_Liverpool_RMG_P10569.tiff.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Great_Eastern_%281858%29_anchored_at_Liverpool_when_used_for_advertising_Lewis%27_Department_Store%2C_Liverpool_RMG_P10569.tiff/lossy-page1-330px-Great_Eastern_%281858%29_anchored_at_Liverpool_when_used_for_advertising_Lewis%27_Department_Store%2C_Liverpool_RMG_P10569.tiff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Great_Eastern_%281858%29_anchored_at_Liverpool_when_used_for_advertising_Lewis%27_Department_Store%2C_Liverpool_RMG_P10569.tiff/lossy-page1-440px-Great_Eastern_%281858%29_anchored_at_Liverpool_when_used_for_advertising_Lewis%27_Department_Store%2C_Liverpool_RMG_P10569.tiff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4800" data-file-height="2246" /></a><figcaption><i>Great Eastern</i> as a floating billboard for Lewis's Department Store in Liverpool, 1880s</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Eastern_SLV_AllanGreen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Great_Eastern_SLV_AllanGreen.jpg/220px-Great_Eastern_SLV_AllanGreen.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Great_Eastern_SLV_AllanGreen.jpg/330px-Great_Eastern_SLV_AllanGreen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Great_Eastern_SLV_AllanGreen.jpg/440px-Great_Eastern_SLV_AllanGreen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="935" data-file-height="613" /></a><figcaption><i>Great Eastern</i> beached for breaking up</figcaption></figure> <p>At the end of her cable-laying career – hastened by the launch of the <a href="/wiki/CS_Faraday_(1874)" title="CS Faraday (1874)">CS <i>Faraday</i></a>, a ship purpose-built for cable laying<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – she was refitted as a liner, but once again efforts to make her a commercial success failed. She remained moored in Milford Harbour for some time, annoying the Milford harbour board, which wanted to build dockyards in the area. Many proposals for the ship were raised; according to one source, pubs were full of talk of filling her with gunpowder and blowing her up.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ship was ultimately saved, however, as a dock engineer (Frederick Appleby) was able to build a dock around her, using the ship's massive hulk as a station for driving pylons. During her 11 years moored in Milford, she accrued a large amount of <a href="/wiki/Biofouling" title="Biofouling">biofouling</a> on her hull. Early marine naturalist <a href="/wiki/Henry_Lee_(naturalist)" title="Henry Lee (naturalist)">Henry Lee</a> (best known at the time for his skepticism towards sea monsters) conducted an extensive study of her hull, calculating she had ~300 tons of marine life attached to her.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was sold at auction, at <a href="/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London" title="Lloyd's of London">Lloyd's</a> on 4 November 1885, by order of the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Chancery" title="Court of Chancery">Court of Chancery</a>. Bidding commenced at £10,000, rising to £26,200 and sold to Mr Mattos, a city merchant.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sold again, she was used as a showboat, a floating palace/concert hall and gymnasium. She later acted as an <a href="/wiki/Billboard" title="Billboard">advertising hoarding</a> – sailing up and down the Mersey for <a href="/wiki/Lewis%27s" title="Lewis's">Lewis's</a> Department Store, who at this point were her owners, before being sold.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill2016_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill2016-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brindle2013_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brindle2013-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The idea was to attract people to the store by using her as a floating visitor attraction. In 1886 she was sailed to Liverpool for the <a href="/wiki/International_Exhibition_of_Navigation,_Commerce_and_Industry" title="International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry">Liverpool Exhibition of 1886</a> – during the transit, she struck and badly damaged one of her tugs, the last of 10 ships she would damage or sink.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 10 May 1887, the steamship <i>G. E. Wood</i> collided with her in the Mersey.<sup id="cite_ref-Times110587_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times110587-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sold again after the exhibition, one company considered using her to raise shallow shipwrecks, while one humorist suggested that <i>Great Eastern</i> be used to help dig the Panama canal by ramming her into the isthmus.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was, again, sold at auction in 1888, fetching £16,000 for her value as scrap.<sup id="cite_ref-Graves-BrownHarrison2013_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Graves-BrownHarrison2013-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HallDibnah2013_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HallDibnah2013-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many pieces of the ship were bought by private collectors, former passengers, and friends of the crew – various fixtures, lamps, furniture, paneling, and other artifacts were kept. Parts of <i>Great Eastern</i> were repurposed for other uses; one ferry company converted her wood paneling into a public house bar, while one mistress at a Lancashire boarding school acquired the ship's deck caboose for use as a children's playhouse.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An early example of breaking-up a structure by use of a <a href="/wiki/Wrecking_ball" title="Wrecking ball">wrecking ball</a>, she was scrapped near the <a href="/wiki/Sloyne" title="Sloyne">Sloyne</a>, at <a href="/wiki/New_Ferry" title="New Ferry">New Ferry</a> on the <a href="/wiki/River_Mersey" title="River Mersey">River Mersey</a> by Henry Bath & Son Ltd in 1889–1890—it took 18 months to take her apart, with her double hull being particularly difficult to salvage. The breaking of the ship caused a minor labour dispute as workers – who were paid by the ton of ship scrapped – became frustrated with the slow pace of breaking and went on strike.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Trapped_worker_legend">Trapped worker legend</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Trapped worker legend"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After <i>Great Eastern</i>'s scrapping, rumours spread that the shipbreakers had found the remains of trapped worker(s) entombed in her double hull—likely inspired by tales spread by her crew of a phantom riveter who had been sealed in the ship's hull. The legend was first widely noted on by <a href="/wiki/James_Dugan_(historian)" title="James Dugan (historian)">James Dugan</a> in 1952, who quoted a letter from a Captain David Duff, and many later sources cite Dugan's work. Other authors, notably <a href="/wiki/L._T._C._Rolt" title="L. T. C. Rolt">L. T. C. Rolt</a> in his biography of Brunel, have dismissed the claim (noting such a discovery would have been recorded in company logs and received press attention), but the legend has become widely mentioned in books and articles about nautical ghost stories.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>London and Londoners in the Eighteen-Fifties and Sixties</i>, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Rosling_Bennett" title="Alfred Rosling Bennett">Alfred Rosling Bennett</a> writes about the skeleton that "it was then remembered that while on the stocks building a pay-clerk had disappeared with a large sum of money... and was supposed to have fled with it", and questions if the remains could have been deposited by workmen who had murdered the man.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Brian_Dunning_(author)" title="Brian Dunning (author)">Brian Dunning</a> wrote about the legend in 2020, noting that while it was technically impossible to prove or disprove, the incident could not have happened given the lack of evidence being found during the numerous times <i>Great Eastern</i> was being repaired.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Surviving_parts">Surviving parts</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Surviving parts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SS_Great_Eastern_model.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/SS_Great_Eastern_model.jpg/220px-SS_Great_Eastern_model.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/SS_Great_Eastern_model.jpg/330px-SS_Great_Eastern_model.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/SS_Great_Eastern_model.jpg/440px-SS_Great_Eastern_model.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Model of <i>Great Eastern</i> in the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_London_Docklands" class="mw-redirect" title="Museum of London Docklands">Museum of London Docklands</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Football historian Stephen Kelly states that in 1928, <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_F.C." title="Liverpool F.C.">Liverpool Football Club</a> were looking for a flagpole for their <a href="/wiki/Anfield" title="Anfield">Anfield</a> ground, and consequently purchased her top mast.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, further investigation by local journalist Simon Weedy has shown that the mast was originally moved there by <a href="/wiki/Everton_F.C." title="Everton F.C.">Everton F.C.</a>, prior to their departure from Anfield in 1892.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It still stands there today at the Kop end.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2011, the <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> programme <i><a href="/wiki/Time_Team" title="Time Team">Time Team</a></i> found <a href="/wiki/Geophysical_survey_(archaeology)" title="Geophysical survey (archaeology)">geophysical survey</a> evidence to suggest that residual iron parts from the ship's keel and lower structure still reside in the foreshore.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During 1859, when <i>Great Eastern</i> was off Portland conducting trials, an explosion aboard blew off one of the funnels. The funnel was salvaged and subsequently purchased by the water company supplying Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in Dorset, UK, and used as a filtering device. It was later transferred to the <a href="/wiki/M_Shed" title="M Shed">Bristol Maritime Museum</a> close to Brunel's SS <i>Great Britain</i> then moved to the SS <i>Great Britain</i> Museum. </p><p>In October 2007, the recovery of a 6,500-pound (2.9 t) anchor in 70 feet (21 m) of water about four miles (6.4 km) from Great Eastern Rock stirred speculation that it may have belonged to <i>Great Eastern</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The SS <i>Great Eastern</i> is the subject of the <a href="/wiki/Sting_(musician)" title="Sting (musician)">Sting</a> song, "Ballad of the Great Eastern" from the 2013 album <i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Ship_(album)" title="The Last Ship (album)">The Last Ship</a></i>.</li> <li>The history of the SS <i>Great Eastern</i> is chronicled in detail in James Dugan's non-fiction book <i>The Great Iron Ship</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_15-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>An Atlantic crossing on the SS <i>Great Eastern</i> is the backdrop to <a href="/wiki/Jules_Verne" title="Jules Verne">Jules Verne</a>'s 1871 novel <i><a href="/wiki/A_Floating_City" title="A Floating City">A Floating City</a></i></li> <li>The 1867 ten-day maiden trip from Liverpool to New York forms the backdrop of the posthumously published, <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Eastern_(Embirikos_novel)" title="The Great Eastern (Embirikos novel)">eight-volume erotic novel</a> by the Greek writer <a href="/wiki/Andreas_Embirikos" title="Andreas Embirikos">Andreas Embirikos</a></li> <li>The SS <i>Great Eastern</i> and its creator Isambard Kingdom Brunel are central to <a href="/wiki/Howard_A._Rodman" title="Howard A. Rodman">Howard A. Rodman</a>'s 2019 novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Eastern_(Rodman_novel)" title="The Great Eastern (Rodman novel)">The Great Eastern</a></i>, in which <a href="/wiki/Captain_Ahab" title="Captain Ahab">Captain Ahab</a> is pitted against <a href="/wiki/Captain_Nemo" title="Captain Nemo">Captain Nemo</a>.</li> <li>The Great Eastern was the name of a radio comedy show on CBC Radio One from 1994 to 1999, named for the steamship.</li> <li>In the trade management video game <i><a href="/wiki/Anno_1800" title="Anno 1800">Anno 1800</a></i>, released in 2019 by <a href="/wiki/Ubisoft" title="Ubisoft">Ubisoft</a>, the player has the opportunity to construct <i>Great Eastern</i> as an addition to their naval fleet. <i>Great Eastern</i> has the largest cargo capacity of any ship in the game with a total of eight cargo slots.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/China_Mi%C3%A9ville" title="China Miéville">China Miéville</a>'s fantasy stories set in <a href="/wiki/Bas-Lag" title="Bas-Lag">Bas-Lag</a>, the pirate city of <a href="/wiki/Bas-Lag#Armada" title="Bas-Lag">Armada</a> contains a ship named <i>The Grand Easterly</i>, based on SS <i>Great Eastern</i>.</li> <li>The launching of the ship, Brunel's illness & subsequent death feature as the initial setup for the 2019 novel <i>The Great London Conspiracy</i> by Jordan Mooney.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:On_the_deck_of_SS_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett,_1857.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="On the deck, 1857"><img alt="On the deck, 1857" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/On_the_deck_of_SS_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg/120px-On_the_deck_of_SS_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="87" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/On_the_deck_of_SS_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg/180px-On_the_deck_of_SS_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/On_the_deck_of_SS_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg/240px-On_the_deck_of_SS_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1452" data-file-height="1054" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">On the deck, 1857</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett,_1857.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Great Eastern, 12 November 1857"><img alt="Great Eastern, 12 November 1857" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/The_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg/120px-The_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="91" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/The_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg/180px-The_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/The_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg/240px-The_Great_Eastern_by_Robert_Howlett%2C_1857.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1511" data-file-height="1145" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Great Eastern</i>,<br />12 November 1857</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SS_Great_Eastern_launch_ramp.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="SS Great Eastern's launch ramp at Millwall"><img alt="SS Great Eastern's launch ramp at Millwall" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/SS_Great_Eastern_launch_ramp.JPG/120px-SS_Great_Eastern_launch_ramp.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/SS_Great_Eastern_launch_ramp.JPG/180px-SS_Great_Eastern_launch_ramp.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/SS_Great_Eastern_launch_ramp.JPG/240px-SS_Great_Eastern_launch_ramp.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">SS <i>Great Eastern</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s launch ramp at Millwall</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Leviathan_Great_Eastern.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Print referring to the difficulty of trying to launch Great Eastern. The Mariners' Museum"><img alt="Print referring to the difficulty of trying to launch Great Eastern. The Mariners' Museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Leviathan_Great_Eastern.jpg/120px-Leviathan_Great_Eastern.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Leviathan_Great_Eastern.jpg/180px-Leviathan_Great_Eastern.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Leviathan_Great_Eastern.jpg/240px-Leviathan_Great_Eastern.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="526" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Print referring to the difficulty of trying to launch <i>Great Eastern</i>. The <a href="/wiki/Mariners%27_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Mariners' Museum">Mariners' Museum</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:PSM_V12_D562_The_great_eastern.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Magazine illustration ca. 1877"><img alt="Magazine illustration ca. 1877" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/PSM_V12_D562_The_great_eastern.jpg/120px-PSM_V12_D562_The_great_eastern.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/PSM_V12_D562_The_great_eastern.jpg/180px-PSM_V12_D562_The_great_eastern.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/PSM_V12_D562_The_great_eastern.jpg/240px-PSM_V12_D562_The_great_eastern.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1448" data-file-height="1173" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Magazine illustration ca. 1877</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Pullen%27s_model_of_SS_Great_Eastern_at_Langdon_Down_Museum.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="James Henry Pullen's model of SS Great Eastern"><img alt="James Henry Pullen's model of SS Great Eastern" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/James_Pullen%27s_model_of_SS_Great_Eastern_at_Langdon_Down_Museum.JPG/120px-James_Pullen%27s_model_of_SS_Great_Eastern_at_Langdon_Down_Museum.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/James_Pullen%27s_model_of_SS_Great_Eastern_at_Langdon_Down_Museum.JPG/180px-James_Pullen%27s_model_of_SS_Great_Eastern_at_Langdon_Down_Museum.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/James_Pullen%27s_model_of_SS_Great_Eastern_at_Langdon_Down_Museum.JPG/240px-James_Pullen%27s_model_of_SS_Great_Eastern_at_Langdon_Down_Museum.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1628" data-file-height="630" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/James_Henry_Pullen" title="James Henry Pullen">James Henry Pullen</a>'s model of SS <i>Great Eastern</i></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:FlagpoleGreatEasternLFC.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A topmast salvaged from Great Eastern at the Kop end of Anfield, the home stadium of Liverpool F.C."><img alt="A topmast salvaged from Great Eastern at the Kop end of Anfield, the home stadium of Liverpool F.C." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/FlagpoleGreatEasternLFC.jpg/90px-FlagpoleGreatEasternLFC.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/FlagpoleGreatEasternLFC.jpg/135px-FlagpoleGreatEasternLFC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/FlagpoleGreatEasternLFC.jpg/180px-FlagpoleGreatEasternLFC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A <a href="/wiki/Topmast" title="Topmast">topmast</a> salvaged from <i>Great Eastern</i> at the Kop end of <a href="/wiki/Anfield" title="Anfield">Anfield</a>, the home stadium of <a href="/wiki/Liverpool_F.C." title="Liverpool F.C.">Liverpool F.C.</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Part_of_a_funnel_from_the_SS_Great_Eastern_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1447346.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Part of a funnel from the SS Great Eastern. SS Great Britain Museum, Bristol"><img alt="Part of a funnel from the SS Great Eastern. SS Great Britain Museum, Bristol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Part_of_a_funnel_from_the_SS_Great_Eastern_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1447346.jpg/78px-Part_of_a_funnel_from_the_SS_Great_Eastern_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1447346.jpg" decoding="async" width="78" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Part_of_a_funnel_from_the_SS_Great_Eastern_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1447346.jpg/118px-Part_of_a_funnel_from_the_SS_Great_Eastern_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1447346.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Part_of_a_funnel_from_the_SS_Great_Eastern_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1447346.jpg/157px-Part_of_a_funnel_from_the_SS_Great_Eastern_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1447346.jpg 2x" data-file-width="419" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Part of a funnel from the SS <i>Great Eastern</i>. <a href="/wiki/SS_Great_Britain" title="SS Great Britain">SS <i>Great Britain</i> Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Henry_Pullen" title="James Henry Pullen">James Henry Pullen</a>'s model of SS <i>Great Eastern</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steering_engine" title="Steering engine">Steering engine</a> – <i>Great Eastern</i> was the first ship so equipped</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable" title="Transatlantic telegraph cable">Transatlantic telegraph cable</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Halpin" title="Robert Halpin">Robert Halpin</a>, commanded the SS <i>Great Eastern</i> when a cable layer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_large_sailing_vessels" title="List of large sailing vessels">List of large sailing vessels</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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OUP Oxford. pp. 250–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-166395-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-166395-6"><bdi>978-0-19-166395-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Handbook+of+the+Archaeology+of+the+Contemporary+World&rft.pages=250-&rft.pub=OUP+Oxford&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-0-19-166395-6&rft.aulast=Graves-Brown&rft.aufirst=Paul&rft.au=Harrison%2C+Rodney&rft.au=Piccini%2C+Angela&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3eNWAgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA250&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HallDibnah2013-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HallDibnah2013_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHallDibnah2013" class="citation book cs1">Hall, David; Dibnah, Fred (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UoYIFJvreDMC&pg=PT89"><i>Fred Dibnah's Age Of Steam</i></a>. Ebury Publishing. pp. 89–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4481-4140-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4481-4140-1"><bdi>978-1-4481-4140-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Fred+Dibnah%27s+Age+Of+Steam&rft.pages=89-&rft.pub=Ebury+Publishing&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1-4481-4140-1&rft.aulast=Hall&rft.aufirst=David&rft.au=Dibnah%2C+Fred&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DUoYIFJvreDMC%26pg%3DPT89&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dugan (1952) p. 266</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:12-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:12_40-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:12_40-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrian_Dunning" class="citation web cs1">Brian Dunning. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4730">"The Skeletons of the Great Eastern"</a>. <i>Skeptoid</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">31 May</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Skeptoid&rft.atitle=The+Skeletons+of+the+Great+Eastern&rft.au=Brian+Dunning&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fskeptoid.com%2Fepisodes%2F4730&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bennett, Alfred Rosling; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/501954213.pdf"><i>London and Londoners in the 1850s & 1860s</i></a> (1924), reprint <a href="/wiki/Lume_Books" title="Lume Books">Lume Books</a> (2016), p. 120</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKelly1988" class="citation book cs1">Kelly, Stephen F. (1988). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/youllneverwalkal0000kell"><i>You'll Never Walk Alone: the Official Illustrated History of Liverpool FC</i></a> (Revised ed.). London: Maxwell Pergamon. p. 200. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0356172643" title="Special:BookSources/0356172643"><bdi>0356172643</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=You%27ll+Never+Walk+Alone%3A+the+Official+Illustrated+History+of+Liverpool+FC&rft.place=London&rft.pages=200&rft.edition=Revised&rft.pub=Maxwell+Pergamon&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0356172643&rft.aulast=Kelly&rft.aufirst=Stephen+F.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fyoullneverwalkal0000kell&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKay2019" class="citation web cs1">Kay, Dan (26 July 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-anfield-great-eastern-flagpole-16558997">"Can you help solve this decades-old Anfield mystery?"</a>. <i>Liverpool Echo</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 July</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Liverpool+Echo&rft.atitle=Can+you+help+solve+this+decades-old+Anfield+mystery%3F&rft.date=2019-07-26&rft.aulast=Kay&rft.aufirst=Dan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.liverpoolecho.co.uk%2Fsport%2Ffootball%2Ffootball-news%2Fliverpool-anfield-great-eastern-flagpole-16558997&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041220154316/http://liverweb.org.uk/g.htm">"LIVERWEB – An A to Z of Liverpool FC – G"</a>. <i>liverweb.org.uk</i>. Archived from the original on 20 December 2004.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=liverweb.org.uk&rft.atitle=LIVERWEB+%E2%80%93+An+A+to+Z+of+Liverpool+FC+%E2%80%93+G&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fliverweb.org.uk%2Fg.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: unfit URL (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_unfit_URL" title="Category:CS1 maint: unfit URL">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation episode cs1">Presenter: <a href="/wiki/Tony_Robinson" title="Tony Robinson">Tony Robinson</a> (10 November 2011). "Brunel's Last Launch". <i><a href="/wiki/Time_Team_(Specials)" class="mw-redirect" title="Time Team (Specials)">Time Team Special</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Time+Team+Special&rft.date=2011-11-10&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDrumm2007" class="citation news cs1">Drumm, Russell (11 October 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100701013417/https://www.easthamptonstar.com/DNN/Default.aspx?tabid=3830">"Mysterious Humongous Anchor Snagged Big haul for dragger off Montauk Point"</a>. East Hampton Star. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.easthamptonstar.com/DNN/Default.aspx?tabid=3830">the original</a> on 1 July 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Mysterious+Humongous+Anchor+Snagged+Big+haul+for+dragger+off+Montauk+Point&rft.date=2007-10-11&rft.aulast=Drumm&rft.aufirst=Russell&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.easthamptonstar.com%2FDNN%2FDefault.aspx%3Ftabid%3D3830&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Great_Eastern&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCadbury2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Cadbury" title="Deborah Cadbury">Cadbury, Deborah</a> (2003). <a href="/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Industrial_World" title="Seven Wonders of the Industrial World"><i>Seven Wonders of the Industrial World</i></a>. Fourth Estate. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-00-716304-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-00-716304-5"><bdi>978-0-00-716304-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Seven+Wonders+of+the+Industrial+World&rft.pub=Fourth+Estate&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-00-716304-5&rft.aulast=Cadbury&rft.aufirst=Deborah&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDugan1953" class="citation book cs1">Dugan, James (1953). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/greatironship0000unse"><i>The Great Iron Ship</i></a>. Harper. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7509-3447-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7509-3447-3"><bdi>978-0-7509-3447-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Great+Iron+Ship&rft.pub=Harper&rft.date=1953&rft.isbn=978-0-7509-3447-3&rft.aulast=Dugan&rft.aufirst=James&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgreatironship0000unse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEmmerson1981" class="citation book cs1">Emmerson, George S. (1981). <i>S.S. Great Eastern</i>. David & Charles. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7153-8054-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7153-8054-3"><bdi>978-0-7153-8054-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=S.S.+Great+Eastern&rft.pub=David+%26+Charles&rft.date=1981&rft.isbn=978-0-7153-8054-3&rft.aulast=Emmerson&rft.aufirst=George+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGillings2006" class="citation book cs1">Gillings, Annabel (2006). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/brunel0000gill"><i>Brunel</i></a></span>. Haus Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-904950-44-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-904950-44-8"><bdi>978-1-904950-44-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Brunel&rft.pub=Haus+Publishing&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-1-904950-44-8&rft.aulast=Gillings&rft.aufirst=Annabel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbrunel0000gill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Kelly, Andrew and Melanie, (editors), <i>Brunel – In Love With the Impossible</i>, 2006 by Bristol Cultural Development Partnership, Hardback <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9550742-0-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-9550742-0-7">0-9550742-0-7</a> Paperback <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9550742-1-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-9550742-1-5">0-9550742-1-5</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRolt1957" class="citation book cs1">Rolt, L. T. C. (1957). <i>Isambard Kingdom Brunel</i>. Longmans.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Isambard+Kingdom+Brunel&rft.pub=Longmans&rft.date=1957&rft.aulast=Rolt&rft.aufirst=L.+T.+C.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0140117520" title="Special:BookSources/0140117520">0140117520</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTyler1939" class="citation book cs1">Tyler, David Budlong (1939). <i>Steam Conquers the Atlantic</i>. D. Appleton-Century.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Steam+Conquers+the+Atlantic&rft.pub=D.+Appleton-Century&rft.date=1939&rft.aulast=Tyler&rft.aufirst=David+Budlong&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVerne1871" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jules_Verne" title="Jules Verne">Verne, Jules</a> (1871). <a href="/wiki/A_Floating_City" title="A Floating City"><i>A Floating City</i></a>. Harper. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7509-3447-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7509-3447-3"><bdi>978-0-7509-3447-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Floating+City&rft.pub=Harper&rft.date=1871&rft.isbn=978-0-7509-3447-3&rft.aulast=Verne&rft.aufirst=Jules&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span> (Account of his 1867 voyage on <i>Great Eastern</i>).</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWallace2014" class="citation book cs1">Wallace, William A. (2014). <i>The Great Eastern's Log: Containing Her First Transatlantic Voyage and All Particulars of Her American Visit</i>. Europaischer Hochschulverlag GmbH & Co. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3954272662" title="Special:BookSources/978-3954272662"><bdi>978-3954272662</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Great+Eastern%27s+Log%3A+Containing+Her+First+Transatlantic+Voyage+and+All+Particulars+of+Her+American+Visit&rft.pub=Europaischer+Hochschulverlag+GmbH+%26+Co.&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-3954272662&rft.aulast=Wallace&rft.aufirst=William+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Great+Eastern" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~branderr/risk_essay/titanic.html">The Titanic Disaster: An Enduring Example of Money Management vs. Risk Management</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span 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<ul><li>Briefly held the title before the preceding ship reclaimed it†</li> <li>Shared record‡</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SS_Royal_William" title="SS Royal William">SS <i>Royal William</i></a> (1831)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Great_Western" title="SS Great Western">SS <i>Great Western</i></a> (1837)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_British_Queen" title="SS British Queen">SS <i>British Queen</i></a> (1839)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_President" title="SS President">SS <i>President</i></a> (1840)†</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Great_Britain" title="SS Great Britain">SS <i>Great Britain</i></a> (1843)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RMS_Atrato_(1853)" title="RMS Atrato (1853)">RMS <i>Atrato</i></a> (1853)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Adriatic_(1856)" title="SS Adriatic (1856)">SS <i>Adriatic</i></a> (1857)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">SS <i>Great Eastern</i></a> 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station">Bridgwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol_Temple_Meads_railway_station" title="Bristol Temple Meads railway station">Bristol Temple Meads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charfield_railway_station" title="Charfield railway station">Charfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlbury_railway_station" title="Charlbury railway station">Charlbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chippenham_railway_station" title="Chippenham railway station">Chippenham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cirencester_Town_railway_station" title="Cirencester Town railway station">Cirencester Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crediton_railway_station" title="Crediton railway station">Crediton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culham_railway_station" title="Culham railway station">Culham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exeter_St_Davids_railway_station" title="Exeter St Davids railway station">Exeter St Davids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exeter_St_Thomas_railway_station" title="Exeter St Thomas railway station">Exeter St Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liskeard_railway_station" title="Liskeard railway station">Liskeard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mortimer_railway_station" title="Mortimer railway station">Mortimer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Paddington_station" title="London Paddington station">Paddington</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Railway_Station" title="The Railway Station">The Railway Station</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hilton_London_Paddington" title="Hilton London Paddington">Hilton Hotel, Paddington</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Germans_railway_station" title="St Germans railway station">St Germans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salisbury_railway_station#Great_Western_Railway" title="Salisbury railway station">Salisbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stroud_railway_station" title="Stroud railway station">Stroud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disused_railway_stations_on_the_Bristol_to_Exeter_Line#Weston_Junction" title="Disused railway stations on the Bristol to Exeter Line">Weston Junction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yatton_railway_station" title="Yatton railway station">Yatton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Bridges and viaducts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angarrack_viaduct" title="Angarrack viaduct">Angarrack viaduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avon_Bridge" title="Avon Bridge">Avon Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bath_Spa_railway_station#Civil_engineering" title="Bath Spa railway station">Bath:St James's Bridge; Skew Bridge; St James' Viaduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop%27s_Bridge" title="Bishop's Bridge">Bishop's Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chepstow_Railway_Bridge" title="Chepstow Railway Bridge">Chepstow Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chippenham_railway_station#Chippenham_viaduct" title="Chippenham railway station">Chippenham viaduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge" title="Clifton Suspension Bridge">Clifton Suspension Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornwall_Railway_viaducts" title="Cornwall Railway viaducts">Cornwall Railway viaducts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carnon_viaduct" title="Carnon viaduct">Carnon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Pinnock#St_Pinnock_Viaduct" title="St Pinnock">St Pinnock</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Basin_(Bristol)#Swing_bridges" title="Cumberland Basin (Bristol)">Cumberland Basin swing bridges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol%E2%80%93Exeter_line#Weston-super-Mare_to_Taunton" title="Bristol–Exeter line">"Devil's Bridge", Uphill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gatehampton_Railway_Bridge" title="Gatehampton Railway Bridge">Gatehampton Railway Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungerford_Bridge_and_Golden_Jubilee_Bridges" title="Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges">Hungerford Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landore_Viaduct" title="Landore Viaduct">Landore Viaduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loughor_Viaduct" title="Loughor Viaduct">Loughor Viaduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maidenhead_Railway_Bridge" title="Maidenhead Railway Bridge">Maidenhead Bridge</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rain,_Steam_and_Speed_%E2%80%93_The_Great_Western_Railway" title="Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway">Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moulsford_Railway_Bridge" title="Moulsford Railway Bridge">Moulsford Railway Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Bridge" title="Royal Albert Bridge">Royal Albert Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgwater_railway_station#Somerset_Bridge" title="Bridgwater railway station">Somerset Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three_Bridges,_London" title="Three Bridges, London">Three Bridges, London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Usk_Railway_Bridge" title="Usk Railway Bridge">Usk Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wharncliffe_Viaduct" title="Wharncliffe Viaduct">Wharncliffe Viaduct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windsor_Railway_Bridge" title="Windsor Railway Bridge">Windsor Bridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Tunnels and earthworks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Box_Tunnel" title="Box Tunnel">Box Tunnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cockett_railway_station#Cockett_Tunnel" title="Cockett railway station">Cockett Tunnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Main_Line" title="Great Western Main Line">Great Western Main Line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flying_arch#Notable_examples" title="Flying arch">Llansamlet arches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sapperton_Railway_Tunnel" title="Sapperton Railway Tunnel">Sapperton Tunnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonning_Cutting" title="Sonning Cutting">Sonning Cutting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Devon_Banks" title="South Devon Banks">South Devon Banks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Devon_Railway_sea_wall" title="South Devon Railway sea wall">South Devon Railway sea wall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thames_Tunnel" title="Thames Tunnel">Thames Tunnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellington_Bank,_Somerset" title="Wellington Bank, Somerset">Wellington Bank, Somerset</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Ships, harbours and waterways</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Steamship_Company" title="Great Western Steamship Company">Great Western Steamship Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Great_Western" title="SS Great Western">SS <i>Great Western</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Great_Britain" title="SS Great Britain">SS <i>Great Britain</i></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balanced_rudder" title="Balanced rudder">Balanced rudder</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">SS <i>Great Eastern</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel_Standing_Before_the_Launching_Chains_of_the_Great_Eastern" title="Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern">Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern</a></i> (1857 photograph)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Archimedes" title="SS Archimedes">SS <i>Archimedes</i></a> borrowed by Brunel, used for propeller tests</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brentford_Dock" title="Brentford Dock">Brentford Dock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol_Harbour" title="Bristol Harbour">Bristol Harbour</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Basin_(Bristol)" title="Cumberland Basin (Bristol)">Cumberland Basin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Underfall_Yard" title="Underfall Yard">Underfall Yard</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millbay" title="Millbay">Millbay Docks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westport_Canal" title="Westport Canal">Westport Canal</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Other engineering and building</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_Devon_Railway_engine_houses" title="South Devon Railway engine houses">Atmospheric railway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balloon_flange_girder" title="Balloon flange girder">Balloon flange girder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baulk_road" title="Baulk road">Baulk road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Western_Railway#Brunel's_7-foot_gauge_and_the_"gauge_war"" title="Great Western Railway">Broad gauge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steventon_railway_station#Headquarters_of_the_GWR" title="Steventon railway station">Brook House, Steventon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crew%27s_Hole,_Bristol#Tar_works" title="Crew's Hole, Bristol">Crew's Hole tar works</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace#Crystal_Palace_Park" title="The Crystal Palace">Crystal Palace water towers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Exhibition" title="Great Exhibition">Great Exhibition</a> (Brunel on committee)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malmaison_Hotel,_Reading" title="Malmaison Hotel, Reading">Malmaison Hotel, Reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renkioi_Hospital" title="Renkioi Hospital">Renkioi Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_fellows_of_the_Royal_Society_A,_B,_C" title="List of fellows of the Royal Society A, B, C">Fellow of the Royal Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers" title="Institution of Civil Engineers">Institution of Civil Engineers</a> (VP from 1850)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abraham-Louis_Breguet" title="Abraham-Louis Breguet">Abraham-Louis Breguet</a> (trained Brunel)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pearson_Brereton" title="Robert Pearson Brereton">Robert Pearson Brereton</a> (Chief assistant)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Personal</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Isambard_Brunel" title="Marc Isambard Brunel">Marc Isambard Brunel</a> (father)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Kingdom" title="Sophia Kingdom">Sophia Kingdom</a> (mother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsey_House" title="Lindsey House">Lindsey House</a> (childhood home)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Caen_Normandy" title="University of Caen Normandy">University of Caen Normandy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e_Henri-IV" title="Lycée Henri-IV">Lycée Henri-IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Marc_Brunel" title="Henry Marc Brunel">Henry Marc Brunel</a> (second son)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Scene_from_A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream">Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i> (picture commissioned by Brunel)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunel_Manor" title="Brunel Manor">Brunel Manor</a> (commissioned by Brunel for his retirement)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Guppy" title="Sarah Guppy">Sarah Guppy</a>, whose portrait was painted by Brunel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kensal_Green_Cemetery" title="Kensal Green Cemetery">Kensal Green Cemetery</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;white-space: normal;">Legacy and commemoration</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Statues of Brunel <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel,_Victoria_Embankment" title="Statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victoria Embankment">Victoria Embankment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_Paddington" title="List of public art in Paddington">Paddington Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_Bristol#Temple" title="List of public art in Bristol">Bristol Temple Meads Station</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunel_Museum" title="Brunel Museum">Brunel Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Great_Britain#Being_Brunel" title="SS Great Britain">Being Brunel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Didcot_Railway_Centre#Broad_Gauge_Line" title="Didcot Railway Centre">Broad gauge running line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_English_Heritage_blue_plaques_in_the_Royal_Borough_of_Kensington_and_Chelsea" title="List of English Heritage blue plaques in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea">Blue plaque</a>, 98 Cheyne Walk</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Historic_Mechanical_Engineering_Landmarks" title="List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks">List of Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks</a> (<a href="/wiki/SS_Great_Britain" title="SS Great Britain">SS <i>Great Britain</i></a> #97)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunel_University_of_London" title="Brunel University of London">Brunel University of London</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NR_Brunel" title="NR Brunel">NR Brunel</a> (Network Rail typeface)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunel_Award" title="Brunel Award">Brunel Award</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100_Greatest_Britons" title="100 Greatest Britons">100 Greatest Britons</a> (Brunel #2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two_pound_coin#Variants" title="Two pound coin">Two Brunel £2 coins in 2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony#Green_and_Pleasant_Land_(21:04–21:09)" title="2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony">2012 London Olympics opening ceremony</a> featured Brunel</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brunel_(opera_project)" title="Brunel (opera project)">Brunel (opera project)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>• <a 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href="/wiki/HMS_Jaseur_(1857)" title="HMS Jaseur (1857)">HMS <i>Jaseur</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Mar (unknown date): <i><a href="/wiki/Pizarro_(brigantine)" title="Pizarro (brigantine)">Pizarro</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">28 Jun: <i><a href="/wiki/Argo_(1853)" class="mw-redirect" title="Argo (1853)">Argo</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">6 Aug: <a href="/wiki/SS_Admella" title="SS Admella"><i>Admella</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">7 Aug: <i><a href="/wiki/Nantucket_(ship)" title="Nantucket (ship)">Nantucket</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">26 Oct: <i><a href="/wiki/Royal_Charter_(ship)" title="Royal Charter (ship)">Royal Charter</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">15 Nov: <i><a href="/wiki/Herald_of_the_Morning" title="Herald of the Morning">Herald of the Morning</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">24 Nov: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Undaunted_(1807)" title="HMS Undaunted (1807)">HMS <i>Undaunted</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">November (unknown date): <i><a href="/wiki/Burmah_(ship)" title="Burmah (ship)">Burmah</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">17 Dec: <a href="/wiki/French_ship_Duguesclin_(1848)" title="French ship Duguesclin (1848)"><i>Duguesclin</i></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">Feb (unknown date) <a href="/wiki/HMS_Vulture_(1843)" title="HMS Vulture (1843)">HMS <i>Vulture</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Apr (unknown date): <a href="/wiki/USS_Wabash_(1855)" title="USS Wabash (1855)">USS <i>Wabash</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">3 Jun: <a href="/wiki/HMY_Victoria_and_Albert_(1855)" title="HMY Victoria and Albert (1855)">HMY <i>Victoria and Albert</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">13 Jun: <a href="/wiki/Red_Jacket_(clipper)" title="Red Jacket (clipper)"><i>Red Jacket</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">9 Sep: <a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Great Eastern</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Sep (unknown date) <a href="/wiki/USS_Fulton_(1837)" title="USS Fulton (1837)">USS <i>Fulton</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">17 Nov: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Intrepid_(1855)" title="HMS Intrepid (1855)">HMS <i>Intrepid</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Unknown date: <i><a href="/wiki/Herald_of_the_Morning_(clipper)" title="Herald of the Morning (clipper)">Herald of the Morning</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Young_America_(clipper)" title="Young America (clipper)">Young America</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1858" title="List of shipwrecks in 1858">1858</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1858" 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href="/wiki/Northern_Light_(clipper)" title="Northern Light (clipper)">Northern Light</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">4 Jan: <i><a href="/wiki/French_ship_Centaure_(1818)" title="French ship Centaure (1818)">Santi-Pietri</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">9 Jan: <a href="/wiki/USS_Meteor_(1819)" title="USS Meteor (1819)">USS <i>Meteor</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Potomac_(1861)" title="USS Potomac (1861)">USS <i>Potomac</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">20 Jan: <a href="/wiki/Stone_Fleet" title="Stone Fleet">USS <i>Margaret Scott</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">23 Jan: <i><a href="/wiki/Ocean_Chief_(clipper)" title="Ocean Chief (clipper)">Ocean Chief</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">24 Jan: <a href="/wiki/USS_Peri" title="USS Peri">USS <i>Peri</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">25 Jan: <a href="/wiki/USS_New_England_(1861)" title="USS New England (1861)">USS <i>New England</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Stephen_Young" title="USS Stephen Young">USS <i>Stephen Young</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">26 Jan: <a href="/wiki/Stone_Fleet" title="Stone Fleet">USS <i>India</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Timor" title="USS Timor">USS <i>Timor</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">7 Feb: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Curlew" title="CSS Curlew">CSS <i>Curlew</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">8 Feb: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Sea_Bird" title="CSS Sea Bird">CSS <i>Sea Bird</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">10 Feb: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Appomattox" title="CSS Appomattox">CSS <i>Appomattox</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Black_Warrior" title="CSS Black Warrior">CSS <i>Black Warrior</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Fanny" title="CSS Fanny">CSS <i>Fanny</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Forrest" title="CSS Forrest">CSS <i>Forrest</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">20 Feb: <a href="/wiki/USS_Isaac_N._Seymour" title="USS Isaac N. Seymour">USS <i>Isaac N. Seymour</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">25 Feb: <a href="/wiki/USS_R._B._Forbes" title="USS R. B. Forbes">USS <i>R. B. Forbes</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">8 Mar: <a href="/wiki/USS_Congress_(1841)" title="USS Congress (1841)">USS <i>Congress</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Cumberland_(1842)" title="USS Cumberland (1842)">USS <i>Cumberland</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">9 Mar: <a href="/wiki/CSS_George_Page" title="CSS George Page">CSS <i>George Page</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">10 Mar: <a href="/wiki/USS_Whitehall" title="USS Whitehall">USS <i>Whitehall</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">March (unknown date): <i><a href="/wiki/America_(yacht)" title="America (yacht)">Camilla</a></i> (or <i>Memphis</i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">4 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Red_Rover_(1859)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Red Rover (1859)">CSS <i>Red Rover</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">7 Apr: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Grampus" title="CSS Grampus">CSS <i>Grampus</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">8 Apr: <a href="/wiki/CSS_New_Orleans" title="CSS New Orleans">CSS <i>New Orleans</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">14 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Laurel_(1862)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Laurel (1862)"><i>Erebus</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">19 Apr: <a href="/wiki/USS_Maria_J._Carlton" title="USS Maria J. Carlton">USS <i>Maria J. Carlton</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">24 Apr: <a href="/wiki/CSS_General_Lovell" title="CSS General Lovell">CSS <i>General Lovell</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Governor_Moore" class="mw-redirect" title="CSS Governor Moore">CSS <i>Governor Moore</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Manassas" title="CSS Manassas">CSS <i>Manassas</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Stonewall_Jackson" title="CSS Stonewall Jackson">CSS <i>Stonewall Jackson</i></a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sweepstakes_(clipper)" title="Sweepstakes (clipper)">Sweepstakes</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Varuna_(1861)" title="USS Varuna (1861)">USS <i>Varuna</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">25 Apr: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Mississippi" title="CSS Mississippi">CSS <i>Mississippi</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Pickens" title="CSS Pickens">CSRC <i>Pickens</i></a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_(submarine)" title="Pioneer (submarine)">Pioneer</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_(1837)" title="Washington (1837)">Washington</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Pamlico" title="CSS Pamlico">CSS <i>Pamlico</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">28 Apr: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Louisiana" title="CSS Louisiana">CSS <i>Louisiana</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_McRae" title="CSS McRae">CSS <i>McRae</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">April (unknown date): <a href="/wiki/CSS_Jackson" title="CSS Jackson">CSS <i>Jackson</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Oregon" title="CSS Oregon">CSS <i>Oregon</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Carondelet" title="CSS Carondelet">CSS <i>Carondelet</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">10 May: <a href="/wiki/USS_Cincinnati_(1861)" title="USS Cincinnati (1861)">USS <i>Cincinnati</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Germantown_(1846)" title="USS Germantown (1846)">CSS <i>Germantown</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Mound_City" title="USS Mound City">USS <i>Mound City</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Fulton_(1837)" title="USS Fulton (1837)">CSS <i>Fulton</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 May: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Virginia" title="CSS Virginia">CSS <i>Virginia</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">15 May: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Jamestown" title="CSS Jamestown">CSS <i>Jamestown</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">May (unknown date): <a href="/wiki/USS_United_States_(1797)" title="USS United States (1797)">CSS <i>United States</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">6 Jun: <span class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/CSS_Colonel_Lovell" title="CSS Colonel Lovell">CSS <i>Colonel Lovell</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_General_Beauregard" title="CSS General Beauregard">CSS <i>General Beauregard</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_General_Bragg_(1851)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS General Bragg (1851)">CSS <i>General Bragg</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_General_M._Jeff_Thompson" title="CSS General M. Jeff Thompson">CSS <i>General M. Jeff Thompson</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/Laurent_Millaudon_(1856)" class="mw-redirect" title="Laurent Millaudon (1856)">CSS <i>General Sterling Price</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Sumter_(1863)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Sumter (1863)">CSS <i>General Sumter</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Little_Rebel_(1859)" class="mw-redirect" title="USS Little Rebel (1859)">CSS <i>Little Rebel</i></a></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">16 Jun: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Maurepas" title="CSS Maurepas">CSS <i>Maurepas</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">26 Jun: <a href="/wiki/CSS_General_Earl_Van_Dorn" title="CSS General Earl Van Dorn">CSS <i>General Earl Van Dorn</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_Livingston" title="CSS Livingston">CSS <i>Livingston</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/CSS_General_Polk" title="CSS General Polk">CSS <i>General Polk</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">28 Jun: <a href="/wiki/USS_Island_Belle" title="USS Island Belle">USS <i>Island Belle</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">15 Jul: <i><a href="/wiki/Johanna_Wagner_(ship)" title="Johanna Wagner (ship)">Johanna Wagner</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Sidney_C._Jones" title="USS Sidney C. Jones">USS <i>Sidney C. Jones</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">21 Jul: <a href="/wiki/USS_Sallie_Wood" title="USS Sallie Wood">USS <i>Sallie Wood</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">24 Jul: <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Isles_(clipper)" title="Lord of the Isles (clipper)">Lord of the Isles</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">6 Aug: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Arkansas" title="CSS Arkansas">CSS <i>Arkansas</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">14-15 Aug: <a href="/wiki/USS_Sumter_(1862)" title="USS Sumter (1862)">USS <i>Sumter</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">23 Aug: <a href="/wiki/USS_Adirondack_(1862)" title="USS Adirondack (1862)">USS <i>Adirondack</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">24 Aug: <a href="/wiki/USS_Henry_Andrew" title="USS Henry Andrew">USS <i>Henry Andrew</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/USS_Isaac_N._Seymour" title="USS Isaac N. Seymour">USS <i>Isaac N. Seymour</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">10 Sep: <a href="/wiki/USS_Tigress_(1861)" title="USS Tigress (1861)">USS <i>Tigress</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2 Oct: <a href="/wiki/PS_Iona_(1855)" title="PS Iona (1855)"><i>Iona</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">15 Oct: <i><a href="/wiki/USS_G._L._Brockenborough" class="mw-redirect" title="USS G. L. Brockenborough">G. L. Brockenborough</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">25 Nov: <a href="/wiki/CSS_Ellis" title="CSS Ellis">USS <i>Ellis</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">November (unknown date): <a href="/wiki/USS_Mingo_(1862)" title="USS Mingo (1862)">USS <i>Mingo</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">12 Dec: <a href="/wiki/USS_Cairo" title="USS Cairo">USS <i>Cairo</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">31 Dec: <a href="/wiki/USS_Monitor" title="USS Monitor">USS <i>Monitor</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Unknown date: <a href="/wiki/USS_Noble_(1861)" title="USS Noble (1861)">USS <i>Noble</i></a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">11 Jan: <a href="/wiki/HMS_St_Vincent_(1815)" title="HMS St Vincent (1815)">HMS <i>St Vincent</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">January (unknown date): <a href="/wiki/SS_Mona%27s_Queen_(1852)" title="SS Mona's Queen (1852)"><i>Mona's Queen</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Feb: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Defence_(1861)" title="HMS Defence (1861)">HMS <i>Defence</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">February: <a href="/wiki/USS_Vermont_(1848)" title="USS Vermont (1848)">USS <i>Vermont</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">8 Mar: <a href="/wiki/USS_Minnesota_(1855)" title="USS Minnesota (1855)">USS <i>Minnesota</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">8 May: <a href="/wiki/USS_Galena_(1862)" title="USS Galena (1862)">USS <i>Galena</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">13 May: <a href="/wiki/USS_Planter_(1862)" title="USS Planter (1862)"><i>Planter</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">23 Jun: <a href="/wiki/USS_Memphis_(1862)" title="USS Memphis (1862)"><i>Memphis</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">7 Aug: <a href="/wiki/USS_Oneida_(1861)" title="USS Oneida (1861)">USS <i>Oneida</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">17 Aug: <a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Great Eastern</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">15 Nov: <a href="/wiki/PS_Admiral_Moorsom_(1860)" title="PS Admiral Moorsom (1860)"><i>Admiral Moorsom</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Nov: <a href="/wiki/USS_Bainbridge_(1842)" title="USS Bainbridge (1842)">USS <i>Bainbridge</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Unknown date: <i><a href="/wiki/Young_America_(clipper)" title="Young America (clipper)">Young America</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1861" title="List of shipwrecks in 1861">1861</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1861" title="List of shipwrecks in 1861"><img 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(ship)"><i>Kapunda</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block; width:3.6em; text-align:right; font-weight:normal;">20 Mar:</span> <a href="/wiki/Derry_Castle" title="Derry Castle"><i>Derry Castle</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block; width:3.6em; text-align:right; font-weight:normal;">19 May:</span> <a href="/wiki/SS_Celtic_(1872)" title="SS Celtic (1872)"><i>Celtic</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block; width:3.6em; text-align:right; font-weight:normal;"> 8 Aug:</span> <a href="/wiki/PS_City_of_Ashland" title="PS City of Ashland"><i>City of Ashland</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block; width:3.6em; text-align:right; font-weight:normal;">17 Sep:</span> <a href="/wiki/SS_Penola" title="SS Penola"><i>Perth</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block; width:3.6em; text-align:right; 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