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Sep 8, 2021 · The SS Great Britain brought aboard poet Saili Katebe, composer Joe Acheson, and multimedia creative studio, Limbic Cinema, to take the ship on a journey into her past. Danielle Vincent photographs Kate Rambridge, Natalie Fey, Saili Katebe and Limbic Cinema getting inspired around the ship’s hull. Saili Katebe worked closely with the team at ...
The library contains internationally significant publications such as a complete run of the journal Mariner’s Mirror and most of Lloyds Registers. These are housed alongside more personal documents such the diaries and logs of crew and passengers. David MacGregor was born in 1925. Despite no nautical or boating interest in the family ...
The SS Great Britain is now a museum ship, but used to be a passenger steamship. Built in 1839, she was incredibly advanced for her time, and actually held the record for being the largest passenger steamship in the world between 1845 and 1854. This miniature model is a cool little replica of the real thing, and serves as a great piece of ...
SS Great Britain Enamel Pin Badge. £3.50. Tattoo. £2. Laura Cramer Keyring. £4. Laura Cramer Mirror. £6.50. Steam Locomotive Pin Badge.
launch the Great Eastern the GREAT BRITAIN (1843), and in 1845, the first iron-hulled screw-propelled vessel to cross any ocean. The GREAT BRITAIN was the pioneer screw steamer of the “Atlantic ferry” service from the Old World to distant lands. New York was the earliest focal point, but ports beyond Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope were ...
May 23, 2020 · English: A model of SS Great Britain's original engines, from the Victoria and Albert Museum, showing the arrangement of the inclined engine cylinders and the giant gearwheel and gear chains, the top of which actually rose above the main deck where they were housed in their own cabin. This model has a propeller placed on the gear shaft which ...
Construction is plank on frame and the model is fitted with radio control for the rudder, electric motor and sails. SS Great Britain designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
