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SS Trike Shifts Into Gear... 3 speed automatic is now available on all 2010 SS trikes. The shifting is super smooth and is designed for twice the horsepower, which means that is will consistently deliver trouble-free riding. Details at www.sstrikes.com/
Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Steel Ship (the first screw driven ship to cross the Atlantic) was scuttled in the Falklands in 1936. It was rescued 40 years later and returned to Bristol where it was built
The SS Lucille, with (from right) Craig Jones, kat Hayduk, Amanda and Sadie Jones, Daniel Jones, Sam hayduk
www.ssgreatbritain.org/EngineRoom.aspx
In 2006, the ss Great Britain Trust finished the project to recreate the ship’s 1845 engine. The engine is a full scale, turning, complex model that has been authentically recreated in its original context. It has been constructed using modern, lightweight materials so that the 160-year-old fragile ship is not overloaded with heavy materials, moving loads and live steam.
At her launch in 1845, the ss Great Britain was the largest and fastest ship in the world due to Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s innovative combination of the leading technologies of the day. Her 12-knot engine was an engineering wonder of the age and the viewing public were inspired in awe at the achievement which Brunel’s ship represented.
The original engine was designed by Thomas Guppy, in collaboration with Brunel, and was a development of the triangle engine (the first ‘Vee’ engine) that was invented by Brunel’s
SS Selma, a concrete tanker made during WWI under steel shortages. Taken with my 1938 Argus A using Portra 800
Steerage (third class).
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship making her one of the most technologically advanced ships for her time. She wa the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1845, in 14 days.
When launched in 1843, Great Britain was by far the largest vessel ever built. However, her protracted construction time of six years and high cost led to her owners being forced out of business in 1846.
In 1852 she was sold for salvage and repaired, later carrying thousands of emigrants to Australia until being converted to all-sail in 1881.
Three years later she was retired to the Falkland Islands where she was used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk until she was scuttled in 1937.
In 1970, Sir Jack Arnold Hayward, OBE (1923-2015) paid for the vessel to be raised and repaired enough for her 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.
This is the Official 2014 Chicago Blackhawks Chevy Camaro SS brought to you by Chevy Drives Chicago. This is an awesome once of a kind custom camaro that will be given away to one lucky fan mid July. Thanks to RealWheels, 2Crave, Cartronix, Katzkin Leathers, Varad Int, ACS Composites and Estrada Customs for helping build the car. Also special thanks to Meguiars and Go Pro Hero 3+
SS United States is a luxury passenger liner built in 1952 for the United States Lines designed to capture the trans-Atlantic speed record.
Built at a cost of $78 million,[4] the ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the U.S., the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, and even in her retirement retains the Blue Riband given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed.
Her construction was partially subsidized by the U.S. government, since she was designed to allow conversion to a troop carrier should the need have arisen.[4] United States operated uninterrupted in transatlantic passenger service until 1969; since 1996 she has been docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.