"June. (""Voyage 47"" was chosen as the code name because it was on her 47th voyage from Penarth, in 1886, that during a tempest she had sought shelter in the Falklands.) Bristol-based tugs then took over and towed her, still on her pontoon, to Avonmouth Docks. The ship was then taken off the pontoon, in preparation for her re-entry into Bristol, now truly afloat. On Sunday 5 July, amidst considerable media interest, the ship was towed up the River Avon to Bristol. Perhaps the most memorable moment for the crowds that lined the final few miles was her passage under"
"laid down at the start of her construction. In 1970, after lying under water and abandoned for 33 years half a world away, Sir Jack Arnold Hayward, OBE (1923-2015) paid for the vessel to be raised and repaired enough to be towed north through the Atlantic back to the United Kingdom, and returned to the Bristol dry dock where she had been built 127 years earlier. Hayward was a prominent businessman, developer, philanthropist and owner of the English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers. Now listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, the ""Great Britain"" is a visitor attraction and museum"
"Robert's son Charles Edward Bright became the firm's representative in Australia, and later partner in the firm. ""Great Britain"" continued to operate on the England–Australia route for almost thirty years, interrupted only by two relatively brief sojourns as a troopship—first during the Crimean War and later during the Indian Mutiny. Gradually, she came to earn a reputation for herself as the most reliable of the emigrant ships to Australia. In 1882 the ""Great Britain"" was converted into a sailing ship to transport bulk coal, but after a fire on board in 1886 she was found on arrival at Port Stanley"
"SS Great Britain SS ""Great Britain"" is a museum ship and former passenger steamship, which was advanced for her time. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, the ""Great Britain"" was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic, which she did in 1845, in the"
"the decline of the city docks by proving the feasibility of large ships. The SS ""Great Britain"" was to be towed away from her builders, to have her 1,000 hp engines and interior fitted out on the River Thames, but her beam was too big to pass through the lock. Thus the SS ""Great Britain"" was moored in the Floating Harbour until December 1844, before proceeding into Cumberland Basin after coping stones and lock gate platforms were removed from the Junction Lock. At one time there were dozens of Bristol shipyards, the largest in the harbour being Hilhouse, who became"
"into Anthony Gibbs & Sons. In 1846, the captain of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS ""Great Britain"" ran the ship hard aground in Dundrum Bay on the northeast coast of Ireland. After being floated free a year later in August 1847 at a cost of £34,000, she was taken back to Liverpool and languished there for a year before being sold to Gibbs, Bright & Co. for £25,000, who had been her shipping agents when she had been based from Bristol. Instead of just recommissioning her, the firm agreed to a complete refit, that: In this guise she undertook one more"
"October 1781. ""Bristol"" took the survivors with her to India. After 1794 she was used as a prison ship (lying in Gillingham Reach, in the County of Kent), and was broken up in June 1810 at Sheerness. HMS Bristol (1775) HMS ""Bristol"" was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line, built for the Royal Navy in the 1770s. She served as a flagship during the Battle of Sullivan's Island, Charleston, South Carolina in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War and later participated in the 1783 Battle of Cuddalore during the Anglo-French War of 1778–83. By 1787 the ship had been"
"dock in Bristol, England. Two chance encounters were to profoundly affect the design of ""Great Britain"". In late 1838, John Laird's English Channel packet ship ""Rainbow""—the largest iron-hulled ship then in service—made a stop at Bristol. Brunel despatched his associates Christopher Claxton and William Patterson to make a return voyage to Antwerp on ""Rainbow"" to assess the utility of the new building material. Both men returned as converts to iron-hulled technology, and Brunel scrapped his plans to build a wooden ship and persuaded the company directors to build an iron-hulled ship. ""Great Britain""s builders recognised a number of advantages of"
"Great Britain in August. Withdrawn from active service, she was used as a hulk in the port of Plymouth. After the loss of ORP ""Dragon"", on 4 October she was leased to the Polish Navy. A sister ship of ORP ""Dragon"", she was manned mostly by the surviving part of her crew. Commanded by Cmdr. Stanisław Dzienisiewicz, she was refurbished in Southampton and then Chatham until 23 January 1945. Initially the ship was to be renamed to either ""ORP ""Wilno"""" or ""ORP ""Lwów"""", after the cities of Wilno (Vilnius) and Lwów (Lviv). This was seen as controversial because although the"
"south east by east of Aldeburgh, Suffolk () with the loss of nineteen lives. She was lost while on a voyage from Tees and London to Calcutta with general cargo. SS Golconda (1887) SS ""Golconda"" was a 5,874 gross ton passenger ship built in 1887 by William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland, England. She was long with a beam of and had two funnels and was operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company. In 1915 six hundred German civilian internees from the camp in Ahmednagar were transported to London on the ""Golconda"", from where they were repatriated via the Netherlands."
"in 1922 and renamed ""Gulnihad"". She was scrapped in 1937. SS Cambridge (1886) TSS ""Cambridge"" was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1886. The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 11 October 1886. She was launched by the Mayor of Cambridge (Mr. W. B. Redfern), accompanied by the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. Alderman Deck). She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route. She was sold in 1912 to the Anglo-Ottoman Steamship Company. In 1919 she was acquired by the Administration de Navire a Vapeur Ottomane,"
"munitions trade. Antony had taken a share in his uncle's shipping business, which on George Snr's death was renamed Gibbs, Bright & Co. of Bristol and Liverpool, with partners George Gibbs Jnr (managing), William Gibbs and Robert Bright. The firm acted as the shipping agent for various companies, including the ""Great Western Steam Shipping Company"", whose fleet included Isambard Kingdom Brunel's . After she ran aground west of Ireland, the firm acquired her and fully refitted her, running her for the next 30+ years on the Anglo-Australian run as an emigrant liner. In 1882 ""Great Britain"" was converted into a"
"the water company supplying Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in Dorset, UK, and used as a filtering device. It was later transferred to the Bristol Maritime Museum close to Brunel's SS ""Great Britain"" then moved to the SS ""Great Britain"" museum. SS Great Eastern SS ""Great Eastern"" was an iron sailing steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by J. Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the River Thames, London. She was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to"
"HMS Bristol (1775) HMS ""Bristol"" was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line, built for the Royal Navy in the 1770s. She served as a flagship during the Battle of Sullivan's Island, Charleston, South Carolina in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War and later participated in the 1783 Battle of Cuddalore during the Anglo-French War of 1778–83. By 1787 the ship had been converted into a church ship. Converted into a prison ship in 1794, ""Bristol"" instead served as a hospital ship until she was broken up in 1810. ""Bristol"" had a length at the gundeck of and at the"
"on the River Severn and River Dart. The railway also operated tugs and other craft at their docks in Wales and South West England. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the GWR's chief engineer, envisaged the railway linking London with the United States of America. He was responsible for designing three large ships, the (1837), (1843; now preserved at Bristol), and (1858). The plans for the transatlantic routes from Bristol failed to materialise but the ships found other uses. Although they were never owned by the Great Western Railway Company, several shareholders and officers of the railway also had interests in the ships."
"Great Britain II Great Britain II (also United Friendly, Norsk Data GB, With Integrity, Whitbread Heritage) is a Maxi racing yacht launched by Princess Anne on 21 May 1973 named after the , built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel which was the world's first ""iron clad"" steam ship and whose salvage from the Falklands was underwritten by Sir Jack Hayward, who also funded the building of GB II. She was conceived to take part in the first ""Whitbread Round the World Race"" designed by Alan Gurney and built for Chay Blyth and a group of paratroopers who went on to be"
"year out of Penarth docks. In 1886 Isambard Kingdom Brunel's , originally a passenger vessel but later converted as a coal trader departed from Penarth Dock on what would become its final voyage. A disastrous fire, during the voyage, all but destroyed the vessel and she foundered on the Falkland Islands, where she remained until salvaged and returned to Bristol Docks for restoration in the 1970s. One feature of Penarth Dock was the tunnel underpass that connected Penarth dock to Ferry Road Grangetown under the River Ely (). Not quite wide enough for motor vehicles it was used by commuting"
"From 1858 all the company’s vessels were built at the Great Western Yard, starting with the completion of the barque ""Constance"" which had been started at the Wapping Yard, and including fast schooners and a number of rebuildings including new screw arrangements on the ""Royal Bride"" and the rebuild of French steamship ""Jacquard"" which emerged as the ""Great Victoria"". 1864-65 was the final flourish with four large iron three-masters being completed, including ""Royal Adelaide"" and ""Royal Sovereign"" of 140 tons bm for Fernie Brothers of Liverpool. These were the largest iron sailing ships ever built in Bristol. William Patterson Sr."
"principal route between South Wales and London, and today carries a heavy main line passenger service. All intermediate stations were closed in the 1960s, but in 1971 Bristol Parkway station was opened, and remains the only passenger station on the line. Electrification of the line is (2017) in progress. On 30 June 1841 the Great Western Railway company opened its first main line between London and Bristol. By this means the capital and one of the most important sea-ports were connected by a trunk railway line. The line was well laid out, passing through Reading and Bath. Its engineer was"
"between Bristol and North America which the Bristol City Line started in 1879 and continued until the 1970s. During the Second World War she was damaged by a bomb in December 1940 while in the Albion Dockyard. After repairs, the ship sailed under Captain Webb OBE and she was part of convoys of merchant ships across the Atlantic. In April 1943, ""Bristol City"" joined Convoy ONS 5 (outward, northbound, slow) from Britain to North America. The convoy was made up of 42 ships, of which 12 or 13 were sunk after the convoy came under sustained attack from German U-boats"
"SS Gainsborough (1880) SS ""Gainsborough"" was a passenger and cargo vessel built for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1880. ""Gainsborough"" was built by Earle's Shipbuilding of Hull, England, and launched on 20 December 1880 christened by Mrs. Bristow, wife of Captain Bristow of the New York liner ""Romano"". She had a large poop fitted with a large saloon and state rooms for 40 first-class passengers, top-gallant forecastle for seamen and firemen, and accommodation for emigrants between decks. She was put on the route between Grimsby, England, and Hamburg, Germany. On 27 December 1883, having been delayed by fog,"
"into port at Southampton. Following overhaul at Charleston from December to April 1969, she operated off the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean until deploying to the Mediterranean in September. She returned to Charleston from her six months with the 6th Fleet on 28 March 1970, and remained with the Atlantic Fleet for the duration of 1970 and four months of 1971. On 15 April 1971, she sailed eastward from Charleston for another six months' service in the Mediterranean, returning on 16 October. She stayed in Charleston for the remainder of 1971 and spent the first eight months of 1972"
"also called in at Cyprus and Istanbul from where a trip round the Black Sea included a visit to Samsun. The ship gave station leave in Gibraltar and Naples; returning to Portsmouth in early November 1971. In 31 months she had carried out two deployments lasting 21 months, had spent six weeks working up between deployments as well as visits to Scotland and missile firing practice at Aberforth. ""London"" was chosen to represent Great Britain for the celebrations in New York City for the American Bicentennial celebrations in July 1976. The crew went to great lengths to make the ship"
"the war he did a PhD in naval architecture at Durham University. From 1952 onwards he was with Burness, Corlett & Partners, Naval Architects and Marine Consultants. In 1967 he wrote a letter to ""The Times"" stating that the historic ship SS ""Great Britain"", was lying abandoned in the Falklands, and should be restored if possible. From his letter great support was created to survey and restore the ship. In 1974 Corlett was appointed a trustee of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. He was then subsequently made OBE, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was also"
"the Falkland Islands for recovery of crew members who were sick with scurvy. She arrived back in England on 25 May 1789. The fate of ""Fishburn"" is unknown; she appears to have disappeared from the records after being discharged from Her Majesty's service at Deptford, nine days after her arrival. There is a monument to ""Fishburn"" in the First Fleet Memorial Gardens at Wallabadah, New South Wales. An Urban Transit Authority First Fleet ferry was named after ""Fishburn"" in 1985. Fishburn (1780 ship) Fishburn was built at Whitby in 1780. the largest of the three First Fleet storeships. According to"
"between Bristol and New York from 1838 to 1846. She made 64 crossings, and was the first ship to hold the Blue Riband with a crossing time of 13 days westbound and 12 days 6 hours eastbound. The service was commercially successful enough for a sister ship to be required, which Brunel was asked to design. Brunel had become convinced of the superiority of propeller-driven ships over paddle wheels. After tests conducted aboard the propeller-driven steamship , he incorporated a large six-bladed propeller into his design for the , which was launched in 1843. ""Great Britain"" is considered the first"
"SS Cambridge (1886) TSS ""Cambridge"" was a passenger vessel built for the Great Eastern Railway in 1886. The ship was built by Earle's Shipbuilding in Hull for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 11 October 1886. She was launched by the Mayor of Cambridge (Mr. W. B. Redfern), accompanied by the Deputy-Mayor (Mr. Alderman Deck). She was placed on the Harwich to Hook of Holland route. She was sold in 1912 to the Anglo-Ottoman Steamship Company. In 1919 she was acquired by the Administration de Navire a Vapeur Ottomane, Galatea, Constantinople and renamed ""Gul Nehad"". She was sold again"
"She was removed to Portland in 1862, and to more appropriate moorings at Dartmouth on September 30th, 1863; and although the original Britannia was later condemned, a new Britannia, previously known as the Prince of Wales, 3 took her place in July, 1869, and retained it until the end of the nineteenth century, at which time, however, preparations were in progress for the removal of the whole establishment to quarters on shore hard by. In 1870, the Trafalgar, 60, screw, was commissioned as a sea-going training-ship for cadets; and the Bristol, 31, Aurora, 28, and other vessels were subsequently used"
"HMS Northumberland (1679) HMS ""Northumberland"" was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Bristol in 1679. She fought in the War of the Grand Alliance. In 1702, she was rebuilt at Chatham Dockyard, though she was lost with all 253 crew on the Goodwin Sands in the Great Storm of the following year. The remains of the ""Northumberland"" lie south of three wrecks of other ships lost in the same storm - the ""Stirling Castle"", ""Restoration"" and ""Mary"". The ""Northumberland"" and ""Mary"" (the latter misidentified as the ""Restoration"") were found by recreational divers in"
"6 August 1835. In 1835 the Great Western Railway was incorporated, to build a trunk railway from London to Bristol. The engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the line was to be built on the broad gauge and it would use locomotive power. The line was opened progressively, but the portion in Bristol was opened on 31 August 1840, and the line opened throughout from London to Bristol on 30 June 1841. In the 1836 session of Parliament, interests in Birmingham were promoting the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway; if they could reach Gloucester, then waterborne transport from there to Bristol"
"refurbished from the U-boat engine (left over from the Second World War, as mentioned above), to the leaky hydraulics to the winch for raising and lowering the anchors. In the summer of 1983, she set sail for Bristol on the opposite side of Britain, a city chosen because Vivian had once played there as frontman for The Bonzo Dog Band, and because Ki liked the sound of the place. Fresh out of dry dock with her bottom scraped, she was covered in a new coat of black paint and white paint over her original colours of pale blue and white,"
"Bristol City Line Bristol City Line was a British shipping line based in Bristol, England that traded from 1704 until 1974. From 1760 Bristol City Line also built ships. The company's fleet was distinguished with the name of each ship ending in ""City"", and named after cities in Britain, the USA and Canada. Some names were re-used up to five times for successive ships. Bristol City Line started a regular transatlantic steamship service between Bristol and New York in 1879. The early years of the service were troubled by shipwrecks. The first SS ""Bristol City"" sailed from New York on"
"HMS Bristol (1653) Bristol was a British 44-gun fourth-rate frigate, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England during the 1650s. She was taken over by the Royal Navy after the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, and was thereafter styled HMS ""Bristol"". The ship participated in multiple battles during the Anglo-Spanish War of 1654–60, and the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars. ""Bristol"" had a length at the gundeck of and at the keel. She had a beam of , a draught of and a depth of hold of . The ship's tonnage was 534 tons burthen. Originally"