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RMER7626–The iron steam ship Great Eastern 22,500 tons: constructed under the direction of I.K. Brunel, F.R.S. -- D.C.L. commanded by Capt. William Harrison. Date c1858. The iron steam ship Great Eastern 22,500 tons: constructed under the direction of I.K. Brunel,
RMCCDYCM–SS Great Eastern Ocean Liner, Paddle Steamer, Steamship or Ship. Vintage Illustration or Engraving
RMD966TE–Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steam ship 'Great Eastern' showing housing for paddle wheel, and sails. Print published London 1857.
RME9CNEX–SS Great Eastern, River Mersey, Liverpool, c. 1889. The ship was an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
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.
RMTXJ32A–1857 Illustrated London News Supplement illustration of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's ship SS Great Eastern under construction at Millwall, London
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![Sheet music cover image of the song 'Great Eastern Polka', with original authorship notes reading 'Composed by Albin Visher', United States, 1859. The publisher is listed as 'Oliver Ditson and Co., 277 Washington St.', the form of composition is 'sectional', the instrumentation is 'piano', the first line reads 'None', and the illustration artist is listed as 'J.H. Bufford's Lith. ['Atlantic Steamer, Great Eastern Ship of War'].'. Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HP72GY/sheet-music-cover-image-of-the-song-great-eastern-polka-with-original-HP72GY.jpg "Sheet music cover image of the song 'Great Eastern Polka', with original authorship notes reading 'Composed by Albin Visher', United States, 1859. The publisher is listed as 'Oliver Ditson and Co., 277 Washington St.', the form of composition is 'sectional', the instrumentation is 'piano', the first line reads 'None', and the illustration artist is listed as 'J.H. Bufford's Lith. ['Atlantic Steamer, Great Eastern Ship of War'].'. Stock Photo")
RMHP72GY–Sheet music cover image of the song 'Great Eastern Polka', with original authorship notes reading 'Composed by Albin Visher', United States, 1859. The publisher is listed as 'Oliver Ditson and Co., 277 Washington St.', the form of composition is 'sectional', the instrumentation is 'piano', the first line reads 'None', and the illustration artist is listed as 'J.H. Bufford's Lith. ['Atlantic Steamer, Great Eastern Ship of War'].'.
RMPAB0Y2–Getting Out One of the Great Buoys: The Deck of the Great Eastern Looking From the Forecastle. Artist: Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1909). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 13/16 × 14 7/16 in. (25 × 36.7 cm). Date: 1865-66. One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W. Field and financed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, failed after three weeks. T
RFH3BNCJ–LONDON Great Eastern Ship Construction of Central compartment Millwall 1857. The Illustrated London News
RF2D92FY2–The Landing of the Cable by the 'Great Eastern' Friday July 27 1866. On Friday, 13 July 1866, the Great Eastern, by far the largest ship afloat, left Valentia, Ireland , with 2730 nautical miles of cable in her hold. Fourteen days later 1852 miles of this cable lay at the bottom of the ocean, the ship was at anchor in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, and the old and new worlds were in permanent telegraphic communication. Cyrus West Field (1819 – 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cab
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
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
RMKAJMK9–THE GREAT EASTERN ship designed by Brunel under construction in 1857. Photo: Robert Howlett
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.
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
RM2AGED7M–The Explosion on board the Great Eastern Steam Ship, off Hastings, on the 9th September, 1859. The 'Great Eastern' left the Thames on 7 September 1859. Two days later, when she was passing the south coast, a terrific explosion occurred, caused by an absence of safety valves for the paddle engine boilers. Six firemen were killed and the grand saloon and several cabins were wrecked. However, it is a testament to the solidity of the ship's construction that it survived the blast.
RMDG6PFD–SS Great Eastern iron sailing steam ship. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.
RMA0FRPY–Great Eastern On The Stocks Stern View print of the building of the IK Brunel masterpiece of ship design the Leviathan
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.
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
RMB416PP–transport / transporation, navigation, ships, passenger ship, paddlesteamer 'Great Eastern', engraving, circa 1865,
RMTA24HR–A model of the steamship 'Great Eastern'. The 'Great Eastern' was at its creation the largest, man-made movable object and until 1899 the largest ship in the world.
RMHHG4H5–The 'Great eastern' steamship used to lift the Atlantic telegraph cable, to continue and complete the laying of the cable in the 1866 season
RMA64XY6–Steamship Great Eastern attempting to lay telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut
RM2AGED7K–The Explosion on board the Great Eastern Steam Ship, off Hastings, on the 9th September, 1859. The 'Great Eastern' left the Thames on 7 September 1859. Two days later, when she was passing the south coast, a terrific explosion occurred, caused by an absence of safety valves for the paddle engine boilers. Six firemen were killed and the grand saloon and several cabins were wrecked. However, it is a testament to the solidity of the ship's construction that it survived the blast.
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.
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
RMA0FRJH–Great Eastern At Sea the great ship of IK Brunel The Leviathan as imagined at sea by the artist at her launch in 1857
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.
RMMAW301–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
RMC41989–transport / transportation, navigation, cable-laying ship, 'The Great Eastern', steamship made of iron, (designer: I.K. Brunels), colored wood engraving, 1865, Additional-Rights-Clearences-Not Available
RMTA346F–Upper deck of the steamship 'Great Eastern'. At the time of her construction the 'Great Eastern' was the largest, man-made movable object and until 1899 the largest ship in the world.
RMC53369–SS GREAT EASTERN designed by Isambard Brunel beached at Rock Ferry on the River Mersey, Liverpool, before demolition in 1889
RMER8WPN–Sailors and workers coiling the transatlantic telegraph cable in the bilge tanks of the S.S. Great Eastern, 1865.
RMD96PY9–Great Eastern' on the stocks in John Scott Russell's (1808-1882) yard at Millwall on the Thames. View from the stern.
RMDF40XB–Wrecked hull of the steamship 'Great Eastern' at New Ferry, England, 1889. Hand-colored woodcut
RMW52BED–Captain Harrison, Commander of the Ship. The Great Eastern, London Stereoscopic Company (active 1854 - 1890), about 1859, Albumen silver print
RMMAKM50–Describes visiting the Great Eastern ship with Jesse Haney and Matty and Sally Edwards. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 13, page 116, July 24, 1860 . 24 July 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
RMBEXF7A–The 'Great Eastern' steam ship, 22,500 tons, circa 1859. An iron steamship that served as a passenger liner between UK and USA
RMT95146–Splicing the Cable (after the First Accident) on Board the Great Eastern, July 25th, 1865, by Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1909). One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W.
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.
RMR18FJY–Arrival of the Great Eastern at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador province of Canada, 27 July 1866
RFMXN2AF–Arrival of the ' Great Eastern ' great ship at Holyhead. Wales 1859. The Illustrated London News
RM2M5JEG5–Art illustration of smiling Isambard Kingdom Brunel, against backdrop of anchor chains of SS Great Eastern ship. Brunel was a British civil engineer
RMA0FRTY–Great Eastern On The Stocks Stern View the IK Brunel masterpiece of ship design the Leviathan in its yard on the Isle of Dogs
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.
RMMAW30A–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
RMTA33C2–The engine room of the steamship 'Great Eastern'. At the time of her construction the 'Great Eastern' was the largest, man-made movable object and until 1899 the largest ship in the world.
RF2HKE65C–Inspired by Ship The Great Eastern in Southampton Water, The Great Eastern in Southampton Water, Southampton, c. 1850 - c. 1880, albumen print, height 85 mm × width 170 mm, Reimagined by Artotop. Classic art reinvented with a modern twist. Design of warm cheerful glowing of brightness and light ray radiance. Photography inspired by surrealism and futurism, embracing dynamic energy of modern technology, movement, speed and revolutionize culture
RMDF40KP–Public tour of the steamship 'Great Eastern' rigged to lay the Atlantic cable, England, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut
RMW52BEE–I.K. Brunel, Esq., (taken on his last visit to the Ship.) The Great Eastern, London Stereoscopic Company (active 1854 - 1890), about 1859, Albumen silver print
RMBEXF7C–The 'Great Eastern' steam ship, 22,500 tons, circa 1859. An iron steamship that served as a passenger liner between UK and USA
RMT9513C–In the Bows of the Great Eastern: The Cable Broken and Lost, Preparing to Grapple, August 2nd, 1865-66, by Robert Charles Dudley (British, 1826-1909). One of the 19th century's great technological achievements was to lay a telegraphic cable beneath the Atlantic, allowing messages to speed back and forth between North America and Europe in minutes, rather than ten or twelve days by steamer. An initially successful attempt in 1858, led by Cyrus W.
RM2G3610E–transport / transportation, navigation, steamship, sail steamer SS 'Great Eastern', ADDITIONAL-RIGHTS-CLEARANCE-INFO-NOT-AVAILABLE
RMKHCCCH–Engraved full length portrait, sitting, of William Harrison, Esquire, British merchant navy officer, Commander of the Great Eastern Steam Ship, 1900. From the New York Public Library.
RFH3BPM4–WALES The Great Eastern steam-ship entering the harbour at Holyhead 1859. The Illustrated London News
RMAJGKX0–Brunel at the Launching of The Great Eastern 1857 with Scott Russell Lord Derby at Millwall docks
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.
RMMAW30F–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
RMTA32XR–Two sailors in front of the wheelhouse of the 'Great Eastern'. At the time of her construction the 'Great Eastern' was the largest, man-made movable object and until 1899 the largest ship in the world.
RF2HM0358–Art inspired by Ship The Great Eastern in Southampton Water, The Great Eastern in Southampton Water, Southampton, c. 1850 - c. 1880, cardboard, albumen print, height 85 mm × width 170 mm, Classic works modernized by Artotop with a splash of modernity. Shapes, color and value, eye-catching visual impact on art. Emotions through freedom of artworks in a contemporary way. A timeless message pursuing a wildly creative new direction. Artists turning to the digital medium and creating the Artotop NFT
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