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Ss mercedes leaving Lowestoft - I was not on board at this time! Taken from nearby Lowestoft Lighthouse road.
Marie Celeste, huh!
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
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
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.
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.
A true team effort or perhaps a ballet of skill and seamanship, four boats maneuver the Canadian Pacific Railway passenger liner SS Keewatin into position for entering the dry dock at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston, ON, 26 October 2023. Molly M1 is on the Starboard side providing power for the turn while Amy Lynn D controls the stern of the ship and maintains its position. The two small workboats on the port side are pushing to reduce the inertia of the weight of Keewatin to maintain control of the turn. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Roger Litwiller. (RTL01531)
SS Great Britain was the first ocean-going ship to have an iron hull and a screw propeller and, when launched in 1843, was the largest vessel afloat. She originally carried 120 first-class passengers (26 of whom were in single cabins), 132 second-class passengers and 130 officers and crew but, when an extra deck was added, it increased the number of passengers to 730.
It is now an award-winning visitor attraction and museum in Bristol Harbour.
SS Alkimos
Alkimos was a Greek-owned merchant ship which was wrecked on the coast north of Perth, Western Australia in 1963. A nearby locality was later named after the vessel!
The wreck has since become a popular diving venue.
The ship was built during World War II by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards in Baltimore as part of the United States Liberty Ship Program and was originally scheduled to be named George M. Shriver.
The vessel was on a voyage from Jakarta to Bunbury when, on 20 March 1963, it struck a reef off the Beagle Islands, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the Western Australian coast, near Eneabba.
After that, lets just say it was a long story…