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SS Great Eastern

Here is the SS Great Eastern, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's "Great Babe"!

She was completed in 1858, and was by far the largest ship ever built at the time, and to this day remains the largest paddle wheel steamship ever built. She held the record for largest ship until the White Star Liner RMS Celtic of 1901 was completed (Celtic surpassed her in tonnage, but the RMS Oceanic of 1899 surpassed her in length). She could carry over 4,000 passengers (another record she carried until the SS Imperator was completed in 1913) from the UK to Australia without refueling. Due to the size of her, she had to be launched sideways, and even failed to launch on the first attempt. She was originally (and fittingly) named "Leviathan" before she was renamed to "Great Eastern". During her maiden voyage, one of her boiler rooms exploded, but she managed to stay a float. In 1861, she was briefly used as a troopship to bring soldiers to Canada to intimidate the United States which was at the time in Civil War, being fitted with a few cannons. She returned to passenger service a few months later, when on one of her voyages she encountered a massive hurricane, breaking her paddle wheels and sails, and even bending her rudder. In 1862 she smashed into an uncharted rock that badly damaged her hull beneath the waterline, but due to her strong double hull, she continued into New York. In 1865 Great Eastern would now be used as a cable laying ship, laying the first Transatlantic telegraph cables. In 1869, the Suez Canal opened, which made Great Eastern less efficient since she was too big to use the canal. She continued laying cables until she was laid up in 1874. Many attempts to reconvert her into some other use had failed, and she would instead be used as a floating billboard until she was scrapped in 1890. Her topmast and a part of one of her funnels still exist today, being located in Anfield and the SS Great Britain Museum respectively.


Fun Fact: This model is the steamer "Transylvania" from the "Saving Transylvania" game mode in World of Warships. She uses Great Eastern as the base model, but with some decorations on her hull and sails, so her textures don't look 100% accurate.


Includes a skin for black funnels.




If you want the model to float:
-Download Buoyancy Tool, and set the value to what ever you want.

The models are realistically scaled, so use Collision Resizer if you want to make them smaller.



Model from the game World of Warships, made by Lesta Studio
Ported by G011d3n



Enjoy!