The Greatest Iron Ship S. S. Great Eastern

The story fo the world's largest iron ship

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First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 182pp.

The story of the S.S. Great Eastern, laid down in 1854, from the finance behind her, the technical problems with her construction and launch, and the toll it took of her designer, Brunel. It was the world's largest iron ship and after life as a passenger ship, she toured ports as a public exhibition. She was converted to lay the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic, and ended up as an advertising ship off Liverpool, and a dance hall and amusement arcade before being broken up in the Mersey.

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The book is in very good condition, the pages are clean and the binding secure. There is some light spotted foxing to the pages' top edge. The dustwrapper has a hint of fading to the spine but is otherwise very good.

ISBN

0715380540

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