Plans to move the near-1,000-foot-long vessel between piers Thursday were scrapped. A new schedule was not provided.
New wooden planks will preserve the deck of the SS Great Britain and the original ... so that visitors can still explore the ship, which sits on Bristol's harbourside. The project is expected ...
Brunel’s SS Great Britain in Bristol is set to be transformed into ... and hand-made Victorian decorations will deck the ...
The SS Great Britain Trust team is calling on people involved in the ship’s dramatic salvage from the Falkland Islands and return to her birthplace at the Great Western Dockyard in Bristol on ...
The ship was rescued from the Falkland Islands in 1970 and brought home to Bristol, where she was built in 1843. Paul Harrison, from the SS Great Britain Trust, said a routine inspection had shown ...
In just a few days, the SS United States will set sail for its final voyage down south, where it will be sunk as an ...
Living in Bristol, it may seem like you've seen and done it all. But many of us born and raised in this bustling West Country ...
SS Great Britain was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York. She was the longest passenger ship in the ...
Her father who worked as a mariner on Bristol ships, soon remarried and had another child who they named John. Like other Afro-Caribbean mariners living in Bristol in the 19th century, Henrietta ...
A few Bristol ships had been licensed to engage in trading in enslaved Africans, in what is now West Africa, as early as 1690, and there is little doubt that Bristol ships traded illegally in slaves ...
READ MORE:Overlooked 'Wall Street' era landmark in Bristol READ MORE ... To no avail. The ship was moved to Sand Wharf, and ...
Stop for a drink at an outdoor table – or a coffee at the nearby Underfall Café – then walk back to Brunel’s magnificent iron ...