SS Great Britain

Although effectively a prototype, the ship continued sailing until 1886, and travelled thirty-two times around the world and nearly one million miles at sea. It was finally abandoned in the Falkland Islands, in 1937, after more than 40 years use as a floating warehouse. In 1970 an ambitious salvage effort brought it home to Bristol, where today SS Great Britain is conserved in the dry dock where was originally built.

SS Great Britain Somerset Bristol

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