The Great Eastern, built in London between 1854 and 1858, was one of the most innovative ships in history. This remarkable diorama shows her under construction at John Scott Russell’s shipyard at Millwall on the banks of the river Thames in 1857.
A true monster ship, she was at the time the largest man-made movable object ever built – at 210 metres long, she was over twice the length of the largest ships then afloat and at 17,274 tons, she was over five times the weight of her largest predecessors
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