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The SS Great Britain, the ship that changed the world.
The first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean, linking the UK to New York City.
When launched in 1843, she was by far the largest vessel afloat and carried more passengers than any other ocean liner.
Only three years passed before she ran aground in Northern Ireland, the damage caused lead to her being sold on and transformed into a emigrant carrier, taking passengers to Australia.
Over the next 24 years and 32 voyages she carried over 16,000 emigrants to Australia.
By the late 1870’s the Great Britain was showing her age, her engines were removed, and she was converted into a fast three-masted sailing ship. In this unrecognisable guise, the once proud ship transported Welsh coal to San Francisco. On her third trip, however, she ran into trouble around Cape Horn, and was forced to run for shelter in Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands. Damaged as a result of this, she was sold as a coal and wool storage hulk in Port Stanley.
By 1937 the Great Britain’s hull was no longer watertight, and after being towed a short distance from Port Stanley, she was beached and abandoned to the elements.
She sailed for 98 years before ended up abandoned for 33 years.
She was finally rescued and brought back to her homeport of Bristol in 1970, where she had been built 127 years earlier.
Today, the Great Britain is open as a museum ship, superbly transformed to allow us to step back in time and experience what life aboard this pioneering ship would have been like.
She stands as one of the most important maritime museums, an incredible journey for this historic ship, it’s an honour to step aboard so many years later.
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29 авг 2021
