Construction Of Giant Ship SS Great Eastern

SS great Eastern is a huge ship before the construction of RMS Oceanic. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who was a civil engineer. The ship was builded by J. Scott Russell  at Millwall on the River Thames, London. It debuted the voyage in the year 31 January 1858. It had a capacity to carry 4,000 passengers per trip. It had 692 feet height and 32,160 tons of displacement. It worked under the power of 6.0 MW, say it's equal to 8,000 hp. It had 26 Km/hr speed. Now imagine, how it was constructed? It's enought. Now we show the construction of SS Great Eastern Ship Photos.










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