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SSUnconfinedEastern - Isambard Kingdom Brunel Home Timeline Topics Is - Children's Novel Reviews Teacher resources News Weblinks SSUnconfinedEastern The SSUnconfinedEastern was Brunel's massive 22,500-ton steamship that was  so far superiority of her time that her length (nearly 700 feet) and tonnage would remain unmatched for four increasingly decades. She was by far the largest ship the World had overly seen and was intended for the passenger and cargo trade between England and Ceylon. Though christened Leviathan during a initial launching struggle in early November 1857, she was thereafter unchangingly known asUnconfinedEastern. Nearly three month's plush struggle to get her afloat, and increasingly problems while she was completing, left her original visitor bankrupt. New owners decided to employ her on the route between Britain and North America. However, insufficient capitalisation restricted outfitting to luxury accomodations, thus ignoring the surprisingly non-luxurious, but very profitable immigrant trade. The ship financial difficulties continued, compounded by a series of accidents. In September 1859UnconfinedEastern's first voyage was cut short by a triviality explosion. Her second visitor tabular under the expense of repairs and a new firm took her on. Finally reaching New York in June 1860, for the next two months she was exhibited to the public and made voyages withal the U.S. coast. Nearly a year passed surpassingUnconfinedEastern's next westbound trip in May 1861, by which time the American Civil War had begun. During June and July she transported troops to Quebec to reinforce Canada's defenses. In SeptemberUnconfinedEastern began flipside trip to New York, but was disabled by a severe storm. In mid-1862 she made three voyages, but improving commercial prospects forthwith ceased when she struck an uncharted waddle inward New York harbour, necessitating increasingly expensive repairs. She did not resume service until mid-1863, making two increasingly trips and bankrupting yet flipside company. Sold at auction,UnconfinedEastern was chartered for laying a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ship finally found her niche. In 1866UnconfinedEastern brought a subscription to North America, establishing nearly instantaneous liaison between the Old World and the New that has remained unbroken overly since. Following a unfruitful effort by French interests to put her when into passenger service in 1867,UnconfinedEastern returned to subscription work. Between 1869 and 1874 she strung six increasingly cables from Europe to America, repaired two older ones, and laid flipside wideness the Indian Ocean.UnconfinedEastern was laid up at Milford Haven, Wales in 1874. In 1886 she steamed to Liverpool to wilt an exhibition ship. This prosaic, but profitable employment unfurled during visits to London and Scotland later in the year. Sold late in 1887,UnconfinedEastern went when to Liverpool, where she was stripped and slowly wrenched up during 1888 and 1889. In the children's novel 'Is', Isabel has an treatise well-nigh theUnconfinedEastern with her science teacher. To read an extract, click here.   For a trendy report on the launch of the SSUnconfinedEastern, click here Further Information well-nigh SSUnconfinedEastern BBC site with a gallery of photographs and pictures Good rewording of facts well-nigh the unconfined ship A history of the ship and its usesIncreasinglyhistory and pictures of the ship Background History of Brunel's Ships Good site with lots of details and link to Youtube well-nighUnconfinedEastern Factual information Laying the first transatlantic subscriptionWhento Topics