The SS Great Eastern is back in Montauk after 151 years! In model form, that is, at the Montauk Lighthouse. The Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time, was nearly 700 feet long, with ...

SS Great Eastern collection. The owner of these items is the great-great-nephew of Captain John Vine Hall, who was the captain on the maiden voyage of the Great Eastern steamship.

SS Great Eastern was a colossal leap in maritime ambition - designed to dominate the seas but plagued by challenges. Built decades before Titanic, it redefined engineering limits. Yet, its story is ...

The Great Eastern Steamship. Share full article. Sept. 3, 1859. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 3, 1859, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

Named after the steamship “SS Great Eastern,” the vintage shop started off as a Navy/Army surplus store. The store’s first owner, David Hahn, had a deep appreciation for all things naval.

THE maiden voyages of the largest ships in the world have often been from Southampton, but in one famous case, this was only as the result of a tragic accident. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of ...

The SS Great Britain was the world's first propeller-driven, iron-hulled, steamship. Forty years ago she returned to Bristol from the Falkland Islands, and celebrations are being held to mark the ...

The SS Great Eastern was unlike anything that has crossed the Atlantic before; a steamship so colossal that one of its key statistics went unsurpassed for 55 years.

The Great Eastern sailed between England and the far east The final surviving funnel section of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's biggest steamship the SS Great Eastern is being moved to Bristol. The funnel, ...

The first was SS Great Western, launched in 1837 and the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic. She made record Blue Riband voyages until 1843.