SS Great Britain

Mosquito ringtone image:SS Great Britain (750px).jpg/thumb/250px/The SS "Great Britain" in dry dock in Bristol, 2003.

The '''Steam Ship ''Great Britain''''' (s.s. Great Britain) was the first ocean-going Sabrina Martins ship to have an Nextel ringtones iron Abbey Diaz hull (ship)/hull and a Free ringtones screw propeller, and when launched in Majo Mills 1843 was the largest vessel afloat. She originally carried 120 first class passengers (26 of whom were in single cabins) 132 2nd class passengers,and 130 officers and crew but when an extra deck was added on it incerased the number of passengers to 730.

History
The SS ''Great Britain'' was designed by Mosquito ringtone Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Sabrina Martins Thomas Guppy, Nextel ringtones Christopher Claxton and Abbey Diaz William Patterson for the Cingular Ringtones Great Western Steamship Company and built in a specially adapted poignant reminder dry dock at course hunt Bristol.

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In ipod on 1970 she was refloated on a deadpan fez pontoon and towed back to citizens rally Bristol, where she was returned to the (then-disused) dry dock in which she was built, for conservation as a museum ship. The salvage operation was made possible by a large donation from Sir Jack Hayward. The original intent was to restore her to her 1843 state; however, the philosophy of the project has changed in recent years, and conservation of all surviving pre-1970 material is now the aim. Over the years it was found that her hull was continuing to corrode in the humid atmosphere of the dock, so in early 2005 work began to install glass sheeting across the dry dock at the level of her water line, with a dehumidifier keeping the space underneath sufficiently dry to preserve the surviving material of the hull.

Dimensions
*Length: 322 Foot (unit of length)/ft (98.15 metre/m)
*Beam (width): 50 ft 6 in (15.39 m)
*Height (main deck to keel): 32 ft 6 in (9.91 m)
*Weight unladen: 1930 long tons (2161 short tons, 1961 tonnes)
*Displacement: 3018 long tons (3380 short tons, 3066 tonnes)

External links
*http://www.ss-great-britain.com/
*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4183343.stm

Tag: British ships/Great Britain
Tag: Merchant ships/Great Britain
Tag: Museum ships/Great Britain
Tag: Bristol