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One of the
Great Eastern
's grappling hooks.
Large iron grappling hooks were used to lift the lost telegraph cable from the ocean floor. The crew of the 'Great Eastern' tried to retrieve the...
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On board a sail barge.
On board an unidentified sail barge on the Thames, c. 1884. Sailing barges were designed to be easy to operate and, therefore, remained economical to...
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Miss Hope naming the
Leviathan.
The launch of the 'Great Eastern' on 3 November 1857 was a public relations disaster. The highly public death of one of the winch operators caused...
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Sans Pareil
on the stocks.
'Sans Pareil' sits on the stocks prior to her launch at the Thames Ironworks in May 1887. Displacing 10,740 tons, she was one of the largest vessels...
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