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After suffering far too many accidents, and far too many money troubles, the Eastern passed from one hand to another until eventually the largest ship in the Victorian world came to a humiliating end, first as a floating billboard in Liverpool and then finally broken up and sold as scrap.<br/><br/>- It took two full years just to dismantle this ship (gives you an idea how big it was).<br/>- A mysterious dead body was found inside the special double hull (one can only imagine the desperate story of that stowaway...)<br/><br/>At least Brunel didn't see the sad and pathetic end to his magnificent Great Eastern, though he didn't live to see its majesty either. Brunel died only four days after the great ship's first sea trial. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/08/last-victorian-leviathan-ss-great.html" title="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/08/last-victorian-leviathan-ss-great.html">www.darkroastedblend.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B>The More-Than-Great "Great Eastern"</B><BR /><DIV><I>- one of the most spectacular ships ever built!</I></DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Built in 1858, it was capable of bringing 4,000 people around the world, without ever once needing to refuel... </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/856D84E9-C10B-4903-ABE8-D204F5C645D4.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/BC6607E4-E449-4292-9921-06E0CE8E3F0C.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/76D02C05-EA73-4B7F-914F-64FEA27A5C39.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/DCBD2EFB-EE7A-4F36-994A-89E09474C710.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>An Iron Monster, framed in a cloud of billowing white sails, or looming through the hellish black smoke - this was the ultimate Victorian luxury Trans-Atlantic liner, affectionately called the "great babe" by its eccentric designer:</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/E8E815E5-0DF1-4B6A-BD44-93A9B8B28FF7.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">perhaps the greatest of the great Victorian engineers</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">a rather small man with very big dreams</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">At just about five feet, <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel">Isambard Kingdom Brunel</A> wasn't a striking figure but what he lacked in height he made up with towering ability.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">the biggest and grandest of his</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">projects</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">what many folks see as <B>one of the most spectacular ships ever built</B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">construction photographs</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/136FA34C-FD0D-4AFC-AC7B-1F1F88775A4F.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/1C53C7C9-B95D-418B-9E71-D42154C1517A.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/77D21F0D-99E9-4F36-B6B3-8756AE7D4BAF.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/99BB2D20-4B26-4628-B0EA-EC597516D9B2.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">a very intricate 3D model of the "Great Eastern" construction</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">National Maritime Museum</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/F582B02F-2A05-4791-ACE5-F7CFE9681CE9.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">old illustrations and daguerreotypes</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/24EF3BE0-A95D-474F-8FF3-230E9522FCB4.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/DEAFDF90-009B-4778-9AAA-14D35BA87821.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/14C85E14-5BA6-4E03-8834-9002A334BFCF.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">the end</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">came with more of a whimper than bang</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV><B>Huge ship takes 2 years to dismantle</B></DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Aribeth/512/82920470-5AC5-418A-8B7A-F5E8B1CCD143.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img 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Hiya, Aribeth! <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.sassart.com/lpgs/ills/Aribeth.htm" title="http://www.sassart.com/lpgs/ills/Aribeth.htm">www.sassart.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/abailart/512/F6C31417-5234-4C24-87DE-F311023B5A23.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://vidian-elenidar-wolf.blog.onet.pl/2,ID288799758,index.html" title="http://vidian-elenidar-wolf.blog.onet.pl/2,ID288799758,index.html">vidian-elenidar-wolf.blog.onet.pl</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/abailart/512/7833A8CB-8966-4ED4-9C4B-A40B2D0E129D.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/abailart/512/692758FD-C5AB-4915-A458-147A465C53C7.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/abailart/512/9A6545CF-52E8-4B8E-808D-A2961E60DA7D.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.thieves-guild.net/index.php?pid=9" title="http://www.thieves-guild.net/index.php?pid=9">www.thieves-guild.net</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><IMG width="120" hspace="5" height="187" border="0" align="right" title="Moon Elf" alt="Moon Elf" src="http://www.thieves-guild.net/cartography/races/f_elf12.jpg" />Moon elves are both the most common of elves on this world, and the variety most often seen by non-elves. Silver elves remain a race whose inquisitive nature, curiosity and hunger to see and to know has led them to be wanderers and explorers, and also to be the elves most in contact with the other races. Many silver elves lives in nomadic groups made up of ten or more extended families that wander Faerun and seldom settle in one place for long. However this is measured in elven terms and many a town or city may see moon elves living there for much of a human’s short life span. </P></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.archlordonline.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album01&id=Moonelf_on_Mount" title="http://www.archlordonline.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album01&id=Moonelf_on_Mount">www.archlordonline.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/abailart/512/34E08CA8-190E-4C2B-9579-2872B7D709A1.jpg" alt="Moonelf on Mount.jpg" /><br /></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.gamebanshee.com/neverwinternights2/races/moonelf.php" title="http://www.gamebanshee.com/neverwinternights2/races/moonelf.php">www.gamebanshee.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/abailart/512/230DDA18-0907-4F93-9063-55C94CDAB69C.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://lukvalentain.ltalk.ru/" title="http://lukvalentain.ltalk.ru/">lukvalentain.ltalk.ru</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/abailart/512/AA800815-562C-4DB6-96C8-C5CBDD092FC6.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://members.aol.com/skovde/aribeth_autumn.jpg" title="http://members.aol.com/skovde/aribeth_autumn.jpg">members.aol.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/abailart/512/9271D96C-58B5-4C3A-9605-0078BB554FB6.jpg" alt="http://members.aol.com/skovde/aribeth_autumn.jpg" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/aribeth/" rel="tag">aribeth</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/moonelf/" rel="tag">moonelf</a></div>http://www.sassart.com/lpgs/ills/Aribeth.htmFri, 15 Aug 2008 21:40:03 GMT