Little bit of history:
laid down in 1854 SS Great Eastern, Formerly named SS Leviathan before her original owners went bankrupt, was a Iron Hulled passenger liner steamship, she was launched at the end of January in 1858 and would enter service in 1859 being retired in 1889, she used a combination of screws, paddles, and sails though those were removed and couldn't be used at the same time as the paddles or screw, and weighed in at 32,160 Tons, and barging in at an staggering 694 feet with an 82 foot beam, as well as having staggering capacity of 4,000 people slightly less than 4 times that of RMS Queen Mary I.
The Specifications:
Displacement: 32,160 Tons
Length: 694 Feet (221 meters)
Beam: 82 ft (25 meters)
Propulsion: 4 Turbines for the paddles, 1 for the propellor, 10 boilers total, 58,500sqft of sails (later removed).
Speed: 14 Knots
Boats: 20 lifeboats
Range: best answer is can give is, England to Australia with 4,000 passengers and no stops.
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SS Great Eastern was an iron-hulled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the River Thames, London, England. Powered by both sidewheels and screw propellers, she was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passe...