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		By the time the Great Eastern was ready for passenger service, the Great Ship Company did not have enough money left to finance the voyage to Australia and it was decided to try her on the North Atlantic run, for which she was not designed and was not adapted.
		The Great Eastern returned to England with even fewer passengers and her master suffered a nervous breakdown as soon as he stepped ashore.The ship was a great strain on her masters and she changed them at almost every voyage.
		Although the Great Eastern had been a permanent finacial liability to her owners, she had been a successful cable layer,but even this was not to continue for very long.
	www.freewebs.com /maritime-history-2nd-edidtion/chaptereight.htm (6731 words)

	SS Great Eastern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She would only be surpassed in length in 1899 (by the SS Oceanic II) and in tonnage in 1901 (by the SS Celtic II).
		She was at first named the SS Leviathan, but her high building and launching costs ruined the Eastern Steam Navigation Company and so she lay unfinished for a year before being sold to the Great Eastern Ship Company and finally renamed SS Great Eastern.
		The Great Eastern was the first ship to incorporate the double-skinned hull, a feature which would not be seen again in a ship for 100 years, but which is now compulsory for reasons of safety.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SS_Great_Eastern (851 words)

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		The Great Lakes were formed at the end of the last ice age about 10,000 years ago, when the Laurentide ice sheet receded.
		The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 became the worst Great Lakes storm on record: at least 12 ships sank, and 31 more were stranded on rocks and beaches.
		In the development of ecological problems in the Great Lakes, it was the influx of parasitic lamprey populations after the development of the Erie Canal and the much later Welland Canal that led to the two federal governments attempting to work together – which proved a very complicated and troubled road.
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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Wikipedia
		Despite the Great Western's claim of proof that its broad gauge was the better (disputed by at least one Brunel historian), the decision was made to go with Stephenson's narrow gauge – mainly because this had already covered a far greater amount of the country.
		The Great Eastern (originally dubbed Leviathan) was cutting-edge technology for its time: almost 700 feet long, fitted out with the most luxurious appointments and capable of carrying over 4000 passengers.
		The building of the Great Eastern was also dramatised in an episode of the recent BBC TV series Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (2003).
	nn.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel (3000 words)

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		SS Leviathan, the original -and launching name of the ship, was planned and constructed for the British -Australien trade, by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a brilliant genius in shipbuilding and engineering, who also constructed the somewhat more famous steamers PS Great Western and SS Great Britain.
		The size of the SS Great Eastern was 5 times, of the biggest ships of her time, and it took another 50 years, before the ship's size was surpassed, in 1899 by SS Oceanic, in length and in 1901 by SS Celtic in tonnage.
		In the eyes of her creator, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the SS Great Eastern, which he always called his "big baby", was a floating centerpiece of British brilliance, extravagance and marvel.
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	Great Eastern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The SS Great Eastern, a steamship built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1858
		The Great Eastern Railway, an English railway company formed in 1862 from a merger of several smaller companies.
		The Great Eastern (radio show), a radio show that ran from 1994 to 1999 on CBC Radio One
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Eastern (153 words)

	The Great Eastern Article
		She was first named the SS Leviathan at the time construction commenced, but her high building and launching costs ruined the Eastern Steam Navigation Company and so she lay unfinished for a year before being sold to the Great Eastern Ship Company and finally renamed SS Great Eastern.
		The Great Eastern continued to be haunted with bad luck, and she never carried a full complement of passengers.
		The Great Eastern was built so strongly that it took 200 men two years to take her to pieces, consuming a total of 3.5 million man-hours.
	www.telephonecollecting.org /greateastern.html (2254 words)

	cable
		Five times larger than the biggest ships of her day, the Great Eastern was said to be the only one with capacity to carry the 5,000 tonnes of galvanized cable, paying it out into the ocean depths all the way to Newfoundland.
		The following June SS Great Eastern was repaired and ready for her maiden voyage to New York, but instead of catering to her capacity of nearly 3,000 passengers she departed with a mere 38.
		As for the iron monster that made it possible, the SS Great Eastern, huge, ugly and ungainly as she was, was not surpassed in size by other ships for another 50 years.
	www.eastwaters.com /cable.htm (1058 words)

	American Literature :: The Eclipse - by James Fenimore Cooper
		I caught a glimpse of fiery light glowing among the branches of the forest, on the eastern mountain.
		So great was his contrition, that public sympathy had been awakened in his behalf, and powerful petitions had been sent to the Governor of the State, in order to obtain a respite, if not a pardon.
		The birds were fluttering to and fro, in great excitement; they seemed to mistrust that this was not the gradual approach of evening, and were undecided in their movements.
	www.americanliterature.com /SS/SS12.HTML (4405 words)

	SS Great Eastern: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The great eastern railway (ger) was a pre-grouping british railway company, whose main line linked london to norwich and had various other lines through east anglia....
		John scott russell (may 9 1808- 8 june 1882) was a naval engineer who built the ss great easterngreat eastern in collaboration with isambard...
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/ss/ss_great_eastern1.htm (686 words)

	sh: The Saga Of Ships - Brooke Bond tea cards offered in the interest of education (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Great Western, designed by I K Brunel and built at Bristol, was launched in 1837, a wooden auxiliary paddle steamer, remarkable for her great strength.
		The Great Briton, designed by I K Brunel, was built of iron at Bristol, and launched in 1843 289 feet long by 50½ feet beam and 3,270 tons.
		She represented Watson's ideal of the best racing yacht he could produce of great size; often modernized, she wan keenly raced by the late King George V until 1935- He died in 1935 and his old cutter was taken to sea and sunk.
	www.whom.co.uk /squelch/bbships.htm (4894 words)

	ÐOVA - Great Eastern Chronicles
		SS Great Eastern was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel a well known English engineer for his work on
		On the Great Eastern's fourth voyage she had broke her rudder in a storm and was thrown back and forth
		Great Eastern continued to lose money and was considered too uneconomical so her owners took her
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	Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The son of noted engineer Sir Marc Isambard Brunel Isambard K. Brunel was sent to France to be educated at the College Caen in Normandy and the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris.
		Running from London to Bristol (and a few years later to Exeter) the Great Western contained a series impressive achievements -- viaducts stations and tunnels that ignited the imagination of the technically Britons of the age.
		The Great Britain followed in 1843 and was the first iron-hulled propeller-driven to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.freeglossary.com /Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel (1011 words)

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		The SS Great Britain - recently renovated and housed in the dry dock in which she was built - is still a hugely impressive vessel.
		The first great ocean liner, SS Great Britain was the Concorde of her day.
		Apparently 2% of Australians are descended from passengers on the SS Great Britain.
	travel.guardian.co.uk /cities/story/0,,1745876,00.html (1591 words)

	SS GREAT EASTERN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Designed by the great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the largest steamship in the world was originally known as the "Leviathan" but was named the "Great Eastern" when she was launched in London on 31 January 1858.
		Built by Scott Russell and Co Ltd for The Eastern Steam Navigation Company, with engines by James Watt and Co Ltd, she had both a 24 foot propeller and two 58 foot paddle wheels for propulsion, six masts carrying 6,500 square feet of sail and five 100 feet high funnels.
		This picture was painted by Captain John Vine Hall in 1884 and depicts the "Great Eastern" off Totland Bay in the Isle of Wight as she sailed down the Solent on her maiden voyage.
	www.sitech.net /ss_great_eastern.htm (518 words)

	Travel Trade: Headline News
		The SS Great Britain, a vessel that has been called the forerunner of modern shipping and a major attraction in Bristol, England, is flying the U.S. flag to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of its designer, the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
		The SS Great Britain was the world’s first large iron propeller-driven steamship and will be featured in the anniversary celebrations along with a new exhibition, “The Nine Lives of I.K. Brunel,” which focuses on the man’s role in the development of travel between England and New York.
		At the SS Great Britain’s waterline level, there is a glass “sea” made up of 169 glass plates covered in a thin layer of running water, which seals the ship’s hull into her drydock and is the roof of a dehumidification chamber, keeping the same 20% relative humidity that helps preserve the vessel.
	www.traveltrade.com /headline_news.jsp?articleID=7198 (818 words)

	Reference for Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Search.com
		The Great Eastern (originally dubbed Leviathan) was cutting-edge technology for her time: almost 700 ft (213 m) long, fitted out with the most luxurious appointments and capable of carrying over 4,000 passengers.
		Great Eastern was built at John Scott Russell's Napier Yard in London, and after two trial trips in 1859, set forth the following year on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on 17 June 1860.
		Brunel was already working on building the SS Great Eastern amongst other projects, but accepted the task in February 1855 of designing and building the War Office requirement of a temporary, pre-fabricated hospital that could be shipped to the Crimea and erected.
	www.search.com /reference/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel (4341 words)

	Brunel 200: ss Great Eastern
		The ss Great Eastern was conceived as the biggest steamship yet to be built, one that would be capable of carrying 4,000 passengers at a time on a non-stop trip to Australia.
		The ss Great Eastern proved uneconomic as a passenger ship but had a new lease of life when she was used to lay the first successful trans-Atlantic cable.
		It is by no means the least of her ironies that the one thing the Great Eastern turned out to be good for – indeed perfect for – was perhaps the only use her creator had not foreseen from the beginning.
	www.brunel200.com /ss_great_eastern.htm (998 words)

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		SS Golden Gate - An account of the sinking of the SS Golden Gate off Manzanillo, Mexico on 27 July 1862, including a list of 338 passengers who were among the dead or the survivors.
		SS Great Britain - The complete website for the history and restoration of the SS Great Britain held at Bristol Dock in England, updated regularly with progress reports on the restoration project.
		SS Great Eastern - Describes the launching and subsequent history of the largest ship of its time.
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		Each hull plate was shaped by means of hand operated rolls and was cut by steam operated shears, all in accordance with wooden patterns taken from lines that in their turn were taken from a wooden model of the hull.
		The Great Eastern was then converted into a cable layer, and worked in this capacity for a number of years before becoming a tourist attraction in Liverpool.
		The Great Eastern was the only ship big enough to take the length of cable required for this huge operation, and it took five months just to load it.
	www.allempires.com /Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7040 (2389 words)

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		The reign of Gregory the Great marks an epoch in papal history, and this is specially the case in respect to his attitude towards the imperial Government centered at Constantinople.
		In justice to the great pope, however, it must be added that he lost no opportunity for the exercise of his missionary zeal, making every effort to root out paganism in Gaul, Donatism in Africa, and the Schism of the Three Chapters in North Italy and Istria.
		His great claim to remembrance lies in the fact that he is the real father of the medieval papacy (Milman).
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	Bristol - Isambard Kingdom Brunel
		Many great people have had associations with Bristol, but I don't think any has left such a physical mark on the city as the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
		This famous photograph of Brunel, standing in front of the massive anchor chains of the SS Great Eastern, was taken at Millwall Docks, London in November 1857 by Robert Howlett.
		The Great Western Railway, which later, because of it's initials GWR, was nicknamed God's Wonderful Railway, was founded by a group of Bristol businessmen.
	www.brigstowe.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /isambard.htm (1000 words)

	TGOL - Great Eastern
		The reason why the Great Eastern was so extremely large was that she was built for the run from Europe to Australia.
		Great Eastern was bought by the Great Ship Company and they completed her in August 1859.
		On her way back, the Great Eastern found and picked up the previous cable, and when she returned she had accomplished her mission and was still in possession of an excellent cable.
	www.greatoceanliners.net /greateastern.html (1337 words)

	Isambard Kingdom Brunel / - Design/Designer Information
		The SS Great Western, a wooden paddle steamer, was launched at Bristol in 1837 and was to miss, by three hours, being the first ship to cross the Atlantic under steam.
		The SS Great Eastern had both to allow her to operate in the shallow waters of the River Hoogly in India where the screw propeller would not be completely immersed.
		Unable to finance a voyage to Australia, the Great Eastern’s owners put her on the transatlantic run, but she was too big to compete with the smaller steamers specifically designed for the route.
	www.designmuseum.org /design/isambard-kingdom-brunel (2177 words)

	Feeder Lines, pt 1
		The Great Central Railway was first formed in 1847 as the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company to run a service between New Holland (Lincs) and Hull.
		1914 requisitioned by Admiralty, 1915 sunk in collision with SS Reindeer at Lemnos.
		The London and North Eastern Railway Company was formed 1923 by the amalgamation of the Great Central Railway, Great Eastern Railway and the Great Northern Railway Companies.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/feeders.html (3006 words)

	Ship Descriptions - Aa to Aq
		This was a 1,826 gross ton ship, built in 1847 by R. Steele and Co, Greenock (engines by Robert Napier, Glasgow) for Cunard SS Co. Her details were - length 251ft x beam 38ft, clipper stem, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sail), wooden construction, side paddle wheel propulsion and a speed of 10 knots.
		The Great Eastern Railway ship AMSTERDAM was a 1,745 gross ton ship, length 302.4ft x beam 36ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw, speed 15 knots and capacity for 218-1st and 120-2nd class passengers.
		In 1914 she was interned at Tampico, Mexico for the duration of the Great War, and in 1920 was towed to Hamburg in a damaged condition.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/descriptions/ShipsA.html (13736 words)

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		Sir Isambard Kingdom Brunel lived in England from 1806 to 1859 and became renowned for his innovative approach to building bridges, tunnels, viaducts, rail lines and steam ships at a time when Great Britain was dominating the world stage.
		• Launched the SS Great Eastern in 1859, which at 692 feet, again claimed the prize of the worlds largest ship.
		The SS Great Eastern laid the first trans-Atlantic cable in 1866.
	www.az-tsa.com /cardinals/brunel.htm (944 words)

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