SS Great Britain

The Great Britain was the first ship of iron propeller-driven, which crossed the ocean.

The steamship was designed by the engineer Brunel and built in the Great Western Dockyard in Bristol. Extra for that ship with new drive have been developed new steam engines. On July 26, 1845 ran out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York. With 120 first class and 132 second-class passengers, they ushered in a new era of passenger shipping. After the Great Britain in 1846 ran aground on a sandbank and had the owner's bankruptcy log shipping, it was used from 1852 as emigrants ship. 1855-1856 it was used together with the Great Western during the Crimean War as a troop transport. 1882, she was converted into a Windjammer, where the machine is expanded. During this time, the ship served in the coal and freight supplying San Francisco on the route around Cape Horn. After a fire on board the Great Britain ran in 1886 on the Falkland Islands. There she was sold and used as a coal. 1939 metal of the ship for emergency repairs to the damaged in battle with the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee, HMS Exeter was used.

1970, Great Britain was again transferred to Bristol in order to restore it as a museum ship. Today she is a visitor attraction in the original construction dock.

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