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SS Great Eastern

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Construction startedMay 1, 1854
LaunchedJanuary 31, 1858
Length211 m
Boats & landing craft carried18 lifeboats; after 1860 20 lifeboats
Designers Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Did you knowA cable of improved design was ordered from The Telegraph Maintenance and Construction Company and the Great Eastern was readied to do the laying.
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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.

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