Oversize expectations: The Great Eastern vessel was supposed to cap the career of its ill-fated designer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (before the huge ship’s launching chains). Victoria and Albert ...

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 ...

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 ...