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RMDF40XB–Wrecked hull of the steamship 'Great Eastern' at New Ferry, England, 1889. Hand-colored woodcut
RMD966TM–SS 'Great Eastern', Isambard Kingdom Brunel's great steam ship, launched from John Scott Russell's yard on the Thames in 1858. Chromolithograph published London at about the time of her launch.
RM2M96BC2–Brunel's iron sailing steamship, the SS Great Eastern, berthed at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, during the 1870s. The ship is so large that it runs the length of Hamilton Terrace. Around this time the ship was being used for the laying of submarine telegraph cables. She was eventually broken up in 1889-1890.
RMER8WR9–SS Great Eastern. Iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Later converted to a cable-laying ship and laying the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866.
RM2G4JW4F–transport / transportation, navigation, steamships, SS Great Eastern, built 1854 - 1859, ARTIST'S COPYRIGHT HAS NOT TO BE CLEARED
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RMA149GD–Captain William Harrison, 1812 - 1860. British merchant navy officer and commander of the SS Great Eastern.
RMDG6PFD–SS Great Eastern iron sailing steam ship. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.
RMDF40KP–Public tour of the steamship 'Great Eastern' rigged to lay the Atlantic cable, England, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut
RFKGXA8F–Rollcall on SS Great Eastern in the Mersey with troops for Canada 1861. The Illustrated London News
RMD96R2E–The Atlantic Telegraph: On deck of SS 'Great Eastern' searching cable for a fault after its recovery from the bottom of the Atlantic 31 July 1865. From WH Russell 'The Atlantic Telegraph' London 1866. Tinted lithograph.
RM2M96BE8–Brunel's iron sailing steamship, the SS Great Eastern, berthed at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, during the 1870s. The ship is so large that it runs the length of Hamilton Terrace. Around this time the ship was being used for the laying of submarine telegraph cables. She was eventually broken up in 1889-1890.
RMMHNTGC–Launching of SS Great Eastern designed by Brunel. Early morning on a foggy rainy day, 3rd of November 1857, in Millwall, Isle of Dogs on the River Thames, London. A large proportion of inhabitants of London turned up to see the launch of the gigantic vessel, with music playing and flags flying people waited for hours and hours with crowds increasing to 100,000. By quarter past one Henrietta Hope! (daughter of a major fundraiser for the ship, Henry Thomas Hope) named the vessel 'Leviathan', but nothing happened the engines at each end of the yard begin to struggle and then drop of 6ft followed
RM2BFYRK7–Ship Breaking or Dismantling the SS Great Eastern (1858-1890) the Largest Iron Steamship in the World in its Time; Vintage or Old Illustration or Engraving 1890.
RMT0XHB1–transport / transportation, navigation, steamship, sail steamer SS 'Great Eastern', designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, built by J. Scott Russell and Co., Millwall, view, wood engraving, circa 1860, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available
RM2PA4XGT–Canadian soldiers boarding SS Great Eastern in 1861, prior to embarkation from her home port of Liverpool. The ship was an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
RMH2PKAF–SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch. Following conversion work she was chartered to the newly formed Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company and laid 4,200 kilometres (2,600 miles) of the 1865 transatlantic telegraph cable. Then 48,000 kilometres (30,000 miles) of submarine telegraph from Brest, France to Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off Newfoundland in 1869, and from Aden to Bombay in 1869 and 1870.
RM2GDK6K6–Isambard Kingdom Brunel standing in front of the huge launching chains of the SS Great Eastern
RM2AGJCNH–The S.S. Great Eastern as gargantuan advertising billboard at North Wall, Dublin, circa 1887
RMDF40T4–Derrick placing paddle shaft on deck of the steamship 'Great Eastern,' England, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut
RMC5336R–SS GREAT EASTERN layout of the iron sailing ship designed by Isambard Brunel and launched in 1858
RME9CNEX–SS Great Eastern, River Mersey, Liverpool, c. 1889. The ship was an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
RMR5R173–SS GREAT EASTERN under construction at Millwall Iron Works on the River Thames, east London, about 1857
RMD997TY–SS 'Great Eastern', Isambard Kingdom Brunel's iron ship built in J Scott Russell's Yard on the Thames at Milwall. Launched 31 January 1858, she was propelled by screw, paddle and sail. British, Transport, Marine
RMC53369–SS GREAT EASTERN designed by Isambard Brunel beached at Rock Ferry on the River Mersey, Liverpool, before demolition in 1889
RM2A2WJWK–Lantern Slide - Tangyes Ltd, Richard Tangye with SS Great Eastern, 1858, One of 239 glass lantern slides depicting products manufactured by Tangyes Limited engineers of Birmingham, England. The images include various products such as engines, centrifugal pumps, hydraulic pumps, gas producers, materials testing machines, presses, machine tools, hydraulic jacks etc. Tangyes was a company which operated from 1857 to 1957. They produced a wide variety of engineering
RM2KE4JP3–'Searching Fault (scene on 'Great Eastern' during laying of the first Atlantic cable 1865-1867). Searching for a fault after recovery of the cable from the bed of the Atlantic July 31st. After Robert Charles Dudley (1826-1909). In May 1865, Great Eastern steamed to Sheerness to take on wire for the laying of the Transatlantic telegraph cable. 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, Robert Halpin, managed to locate the lost cable end and the unbroken cable made it to shore in Heart's Content, Newfoundland
RMR18FJY–Arrival of the Great Eastern at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador province of Canada, 27 July 1866
RMCCDYCM–SS Great Eastern Ocean Liner, Paddle Steamer, Steamship or Ship. Vintage Illustration or Engraving
RFKGXAP0–Examining the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, on board the SS Great Eastern 1865. The Illustrated London News
RMA64XY6–Steamship Great Eastern attempting to lay telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut
RM2PJWT83–Preparing an attempt to recover a lost cable from the Great Eastern during the 1865 Atlantic Telegraph Expedition. The iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was the largest ship ever built in 1858.
RM2B01A3H–England/UK: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), by the launching chains of the Great Eastern at Millwall. Photo by Robert Howlett (1831-1858), 1857. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS, was a leading British civil engineer, famed for his bridges and dockyards, and especially for the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series of famous steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship; and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
RM2A2WJRJ–Lantern Slide - Tangyes Ltd, Launching of the SS Great Eastern, 1858, One of 239 glass lantern slides depicting products manufactured by Tangyes Limited engineers of Birmingham, England. The images include various products such as engines, centrifugal pumps, hydraulic pumps, gas producers, materials testing machines, presses, machine tools, hydraulic jacks etc. Tangyes was a company which operated from 1857 to 1957. They produced a wide variety of engineering
RM2B01A3M–England/UK: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), by the launching chains of the Great Eastern at Millwall. Photo by Robert Howlett (1831-1858), 1857. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS, was a leading British civil engineer, famed for his bridges and dockyards, and especially for the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series of famous steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship; and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
RM2G9EY1F–An old engraving of the breaking in mid-Atlantic of the transatlantic telegraph whilst being laid by SS Great Eastern 1865. It is from a book of the 1890s on Victorian discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. Transatlantic telegraph cables were the undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. The second cable (shown here) was laid in 1865. The cable broke in mid-Atlantic; after many rescue attempts, it was abandoned. In 1866 a third cable was laid from Ireland to Newfoundland, and on July 27 the successful connection was put into service.
RM2WTCKKN–ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL (1806-1859) British civil engineer and mathematician photographed in front of the launching chains of the SS Great Britain by Robert Howlett in 1857
RF2RFN4W4–Hand-colored lithograph from 1858 of the SS Great Eastern, a ship constructed by Isambard Brunel and the largest ship in the world when launched in 1858, powered by sails (six-master) and steamship, paddle wheel and screw-propelled.
RM2AGED7P–SS Great Eastern in New York Harbor, 1860 - probably at a pier on the Hudson River between West 11th and 12th Streets, her usual New York berth.
RMMAW2YW–SS Great Eastern ship launch site on the Isle of Dogs, London. April 2018 SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom
RMKK74D9–Recovering the Atlantic Telegraph cable from the sea bed 1866 (laid by the 'Great Eastern' the year before)
RM2AW81AK–19th century Woodcut print on paper of the SS Great Eastern iron sailing steamship from L'art Naval by Leon Renard, Published in 1881
RM2GA70W0–SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by J. Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the River Thames, London. 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 only surpassed in 1899 by the 705-foot (215 m) 17,274-gross-ton RMS Oceanic, her gross tonnage of 18,915 was only surpassed in 1901 by the 701-foot (214 m) 21,035-gross-ton RMS Celtic, and her 4,000-passenger capacity was sur
RMDC9D12–Ship 'Great Eastern' picking up the Atlantic cable which allowed telegraphs between North America and Europe. Hand-colored woodcut
RM2PJWT8J–Coiling the Atlantic telegraph cable in one of the tanks on the Great Eastern during the 1865 Atlantic Telegraph Expedition. The iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was the largest ship ever built in 1858.
RMCBHT60–Telegraph Cable Dover to Calais ship Great Eastern Sir James Anderson iron tank Telegraph Company
RF2B1K824–The SS Great Eastern iron sailing steamship laying transoceanic communication cables on the Atlantic seabed
RM2A2WJRH–Lantern Slide - Tangyes Ltd, Launching of SS Great Eastern, circa 1910, One of 239 glass lantern slides depicting products manufactured by Tangyes Limited engineers of Birmingham, England. The images include various products such as engines, centrifugal pumps, hydraulic pumps, gas producers, materials testing machines, presses, machine tools, hydraulic jacks etc. Tangyes was a company which operated from 1857 to 1957. They produced a wide variety of engineering
RMD95WMA–William Harrison (1812-1860) English sailor. First captain of the SS 'Great Eastern', the ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. From 'The Illustrated News of the World' (London, c1861).
RM2WTCKMT–ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL (1806-1859) British civil engineer and mathematician detail of the photograph in front of the launching chains of the SS Great Britain by Robert Howlett in 1857
RMHTMKHM–The Atlantic Telegraph: preparing to grapple for the broken cable from the bows of the SS 'Great Eastern' 2 August 1865. From WH Russell 'The Atlantic Telegraph' London 1866. Tinted lithograph
RMMAW304–SS Great Eastern ship launch site on the Isle of Dogs, London. April 2018 SS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom
RM2M5JEG5–Art illustration of smiling Isambard Kingdom Brunel, against backdrop of anchor chains of SS Great Eastern ship. Brunel was a British civil engineer
RM2JRAPCR–Woodcut print based on a photograph of the Leviathan, an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship, later known as the SS Great Eastern, under construction, November 12, 1857. Photography by Robert Howlett (1831 - 1858).
RM2G71GRD–An old engraving of the outer, iron wire covering of the transatlantic telegraph cables being made at the factory of Webster & Horsfall, Birmingham, England, UK c.1865. It is from a book of the 1890s on Victorian discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. The cables themselves were manufactured by Glass, Elliot and Company in Greenwich, London. The cables were laid under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. This second cable was laid in 1865 from Brunel’s ship SS Great Eastern. The cable broke in mid-Atlantic; after many rescue attempts, it was abandoned.
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