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19th July 1843: The ship SS Great Britain designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel launched in Bristol

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Combining an iron hull with screw-propeller propulsion, SS Great Britain was the largest ship afloat at the time of its launch and introduced technologies that would influence ocean-going ships for the remainder of the nineteenth ...

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