John Russell, a shipbuilder, recalls the time that Isambard Kingdom Brunel asked him to build his latest ship. The ship was called the 'SS Great Eastern' - or, to use the affectionate name that ...

A beloved iron sculpture of a ship outside the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe has been demolished. Gardeners are now at ...

Scherrikar Bell: This time the physical geography feature that Brunel needed to help people overcome, was the Atlantic Ocean. And he did it by building three ships including the first steel hold ...

Before the invention of anchor chain ships used hemp rope ... for the Great Eastern shown in the famous photograph of I.K. Brunel. The last liner equipped with chain made at Pontypridd was ...

SS Great Britain was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. She was the longest passenger ship in the ...