Six of the best SHIPS WITH STORIES
May 03, 2022
2 minutes
SS Great Britain
roving the saying ‘shipshape and Bristol fashion’, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s vast 1845 passenger steamer sits gleaming on Bristol’s waterfront, in the very dock in which it was built. Designed to run between the city and New York, it was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic. Later used to transport emigrants to Australia (and tourists – Anthony Trollope wrote aboard one such journey in 1871)
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