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Mountbatten Medallic History of Great Britain and the Sea Medal: The Steamship Great Britain
Mountbatten Medallic History of Great Britain and the Sea Medal: The Steamship Great Britain
Mountbatten Medallic History of Great Britain and the Sea Medal: The Steamship Great Britain
Mountbatten Medallic History of Great Britain and the Sea Medal: The Steamship Great Britain

Mountbatten Medallic History of Great Britain and the Sea Medal: The Steamship Great Britain

Associated (Frogmore House, Windsor, England, 1900 - 1979)
Medallist
DateMay 2004
Object NameMedal
MediumSterling Silver
ClassificationsMedals
AcquisitionPresented in 2004 by Dr Joan M Burrell.
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDMS072500.57
About MeThe Great Britain was a product of the genius of Isambard Kingdom BruneI and was built for the BristoI-based Great Western Steam Ship Company. Launched from the drydock in which she was built in JuIy 1843 and named by the Prince Consort, she aroused enormous popular and professional interest from the very start of her career. Her completion was delayed because of the difficulty of getting her out of the Bristol docks after she had been fitted out and equipped with her engines, and her trials were not conducted until December 1844. She completed her maiden voyage to New York in 14 days and 21 hours. She was dogged by a number of minor mishaps when in the Atlantic trade, but in 1846 went aground on outward passage from Liverpool towards New York in Dundrum Bay on the east coast of Ireland. The Great Britain was salved in August of the following year and put into the Australian trade where she operated as an auxiliary screw steamer equipped with new engines, a new rig and improved with sundry other alterations.

She was highly successful, running, with a break for service as a troop ship during the Crimean War, until the early 1880s, when her engines were taken out of her and she was re-rigged as a three-masted square-rigged sailing ship. After being partly dismasted she was abandoned in Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands. In 1970 a British group acquired her; she was salved for the second time and brought back to Bristol where she is now being restored in the original drydock in which she was built.

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