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SS Great Britain This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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SS Great Britain The SS Great Britain was a world first when it was launched in Bristol in 1843. This uniquely successful ship design brought together new technologies in a way which transformed world travel. It was immediately successful - on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic the SS Great Britain easily broke the previous speed record. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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The stern of the SS Great Britain This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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SS Great Britain below waterline The lower section of the rusty iron hull of Brunel's great steamship, seen from below the waterline. It is maintained in a controlled atmosphere in its dry dock below a glass roof with water flowing on top of it. The hull of the ship is so impregnated with salts that it has to be kept as dry as a desert.If even a small amount of water (such as is normally in air) gets in to the metal hull corrosion which has already done a lot of damage will start up again. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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SS Great Britain Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the most daring of the great Victorian engineers, conceived the groundbreaking combination of a screw propeller, an iron hull, and a massive 1000-horsepower steam engine. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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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. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Aboard SS Great Britain This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Aboard SS Great Britain This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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