Buy this book on-line ROWLAND, K. T: : The GREAT BRITAINUK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1971. ISBN 0715351605.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.Owner inscrptn,price-clip to dw/dj.8vo,132pp includes index+appendices,b/w photographs, illus and plans.
The SS GREAT BRITAIN,launched in 1844,is
a unique ship,since she not only played a major part in the transition from sail to steam, but also set the stage for a century of ship developement.She was the first iron ship,the largest yet built, and
the first to be driven by screw propulsion.Designed by ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL.
Apart from her significence in the evolution of naval architecture,her story provides a fascinating insight to many aspects of mid-Victorian England.Her active career covered a period of consolidation of the Industrial Revolution at home and the expansion of British trade and influence overseas.There are thousands of Australians today,whose forefathers travelled in her as emigrants,and the predecessors of soldiers of many famous regiments sailed in her to the Crimea,and to India at the time of the Mutiny. Eventually her engines old and outdated, the GREAT BRITAIN worked her last days under sail,only to be laid up in the Falkland Islands as a wool store.In the summer of 1970,127 years after her launch,
she was salvaged and brought home to Bristol,to be restored and fitted out as a museum.She resides there now.
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