The Great Ship
Description
In the early 1850s, Isambard Kingdom Brunel dreamed of creating the largest ship ever built. The project was fraught with disaster and tragedy, but the ship was to become one of the crowning achievements of the Victorian age by carrying the first transatlantic telegraph cable to link Europe and America.
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49 min 58 sec
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