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SS
GREAT BRITAIN model
SS
Great Britain was a bold attempt by a British
company to break the American monopoly of the
trans-Atlantic passenger trade.
At the time of her
launch in 1843,
SS Great
Britain
was by far the largest ship in
the world
and most technically
innovative ship. She was over 100 feet longer than her rivals, and the first
screw-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic.
On 26 July 1845,
the Great Britain
ship
undertook her maiden voyage to New York,
covering 3,100 miles in just 14 days 21 hours.
In 1850, after five voyages to New York, she began her
service to Australia. In
1852, she made her first voyage to Melbourne,
Australia, carrying 630 emigrants. She was considered the most reliable immigrant
ship between Britain and Australia.
In
1854, the Great
Britain ship was refitted as a troopship for the Crimean
War. In 1857, she carried reinforcements to
Bombay to deal with the Indian Mutiny.
In 1882, SS Great
Britain was converted entirely to a sailing vessel
for transporting coal to San Francisco and returning
with wheat. After two successful voyages, in 1886
she was dismasted by a hurricane off Cape Horn. She was retired to the Falkland Islands where she
was utilized as a warehouse and coal hulk until
scuttled in 1937.
In 1970, the
ship SS Great
Britain was returned to the Bristol dry dock where
she was born. Now listed as part of the
National Historic Fleet, Core Collection, SS Great
Britain won the
prestigious Gulbenkian Prize as UK Museum of the
Year 2006. The ship also won two awards at the
Museums and Heritage Awards for Excellence 2006
conference in the restoration and conservation
category as well as permanent exhibition. These Awards follow the re-launch of the Great
Britain after work costing £11.3 million to
transform her into a major visitor attraction and
museum. The
vessel attracts 150,000-170,000 visitors annually.
This primarily wood 5'
long SS Great Britain model was
commissioned in 2009 by
the
Maritime Museum
of San Diego
for permanent exhibit.
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at
Services@ModelShipMaster.com
Learn more
about the Great Britain model here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Britain
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