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 ...

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 ...

Bristol's links with the Royal Navy's largest aircraft carrier have been celebrated ahead of a major deployment to Japan. HMS ...

Artefacts up for virtual adoption include Brunel's last cigar ... a private guided tour for two of the ship and museums with ...

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 ...

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 ...