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History and Description of the Steam-Ship Great Britain, Built at Bristol for the Great Western Steam-Ship Company
Christopher Claxton
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-09-27.
ISBN 9781332056439
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Excerpt from History and Description of the Steam-Ship Great Britain, Built at Bristol for the Great Western Steam-Ship Company: To Which Are Added, Remarks on the Comparative Merits of Iron and Wood as Materials for Ship-Building This splendid iron ship - the largest vessel we believe in the world - was launched, or rather floated off, from the dock at Bristol in which she was built, on the 19th of July, 1843, in the immediate presence of Prince Albert and a large concourse of noblemen and gentlemen, and families of the first distinction from nearly every quarter of the kingdom, as well as of many thousands of spectators belonging to that town, and congregated on the adjacent heights, and every available point of view on shore, or from vessels on the river. The untoward delays that afterwards arose in getting the vessel ready for sea, are already before the public. Every difficulty has happily been overcome; and as the vessel has already most satisfactorily solved the problem involved in the magnitude of her construction, and her peculiar mode of propulsion (from which a new era in ocean steam navigation will henceforth be dated), we have taken steps to gratify our readers by a more detailed account of the leviathan and her machinery, with statistics, illustrated by wood-cuts, presenting views of her hull, machinery, &c., so that an accurate idea of the whole may be attained at a glance. General Description of the Great Britain. The vessel is entirely built of iron, with the exception of the boarding of her decks and some of her cabin fittings and carved-work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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