List of ships named SS Great Western information

A number of ships have carried the name Great Western. SS Great Western (1838), built for the Great Western Steamship Company. Sold to Royal Mail Steam...

unit of the Great Western Steamship Company. Completed in 1838, she was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1837 to 1839, the year the SS British...

SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from...

SS Great Eastern was an iron sail-powered, paddle wheel and screw-propelled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell...

This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which...

This list of museum ships is a sortable, annotated list of notable museum ships around the world. This includes "ships preserved in museums" defined broadly...

SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship rolled over onto its side while tied to a dock in the...

genuine historic ships; replica ships, some associated with museums, are listed separately in the List of ship replicas. Some historic ships actively used...

This is a list of missing ships and wrecks. If it is known that the ship in question sank, then its wreck has not yet been located. Ships are usually...

of the Great Lakes List of shipwrecks of western Lake Superior List of Great Lakes shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places "The Great Lakes...

tonnage outlived the ships that set them - notably the SS Great Eastern, and RMS Queen Elizabeth. The term "largest passenger ship" has evolved over time...

The SS Western Reserve was a propeller lake freighter that was constructed in 1890 by the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company for Peter G. Minch, a ship's captain...

granted by Act of Parliament for the Great Western Railway (GWR) to operate ships in 1871. The following year the company took over the ships operated by...

SS Badger is a passenger and vehicle ferry in the United States that has been in service on Lake Michigan since 1953. Currently, the ship shuttles between...

thirty-two of the convoy ships were able to escape in the darkness with Admiral Scheer destroying only six ships of the convoy. In 1941 SS Beaverbrae...

This is a list of Victory ships. Victory ships were a type of cargo ship which were mass-produced in the United States during World War II. In the following...

paddle steamer SS Great Western built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1838, which inaugurated the era of the trans-Atlantic ocean liner. SS Archimedes, built...

Railway accidents Great Western Railway ships Great Western Railway telegraphic codes GWR locomotive numbering and classification List of 7-foot gauge railway...

advent of the Jet Age and the decline in transoceanic ship service brought about a gradual transition from passenger ships to modern cruise ships as a means...

SS Cap Arcona, named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship...

successful outcome had it built sister ships for Great Western instead of investing in the too advanced Great Britain. By the 1830s, Liverpool was overtaking...

following is the list of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy for the duration of its existence, 1868–1945. This list also includes ships before the official...

list of the world's longest wooden ships. The vessels are sorted by ship length including bowsprit, if known. Finding the world's longest wooden ship...

ships. He designed and built three ships that revolutionised naval engineering: the SS Great Western (1838), the SS Great Britain (1843), and the SS Great...

was most powerful on November 9, battering and overturning ships on four of the five Great Lakes, particularly Lake Huron. The storm was the deadliest...

swept away. SS Alpena sank with loss of 80 passengers and crew. The Mataafa Storm of 1905 is the name of a storm that occurred on the Great Lakes on November...

List of United States Navy and Coast Guard ships lost during World War II, from 31 October 1941 to 31 December 1946, sorted by type and name. This listing...