The SS Great Western

Season: 5 Episode: 19

​The SS Great Western was at the time the fastest way to cross the Atlantic Ocean. This meant that passengers could get from England to New York much faster. Thus emigrating to America would have been quicker for our ancestors. Now, there's a £20m scheme to bring the SS Great Western back to life!

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SOURCES

About Great Western from Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool

Bristol Evening Post - Thursday 05 April 1962

Corlett, Ewan (1975). The Iron Ship: the Story of Brunel's SS Great Britain. Conway.

Grahame Farr, The S.S. Great Western: The First Atlantic Liner (Bristol Historical Association pamphlets, no. 8, 1963), p.5.

Alec French Architects

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