No one would have accused the Rev. Daniel V. McLean of being showy. The 60-year-old Presbyterian minister and president of Lafayette College from 1851 to 1857 had the beard and manner of an Old Tes… ...

Billed as the most ambitious vessel of its era, the SS Great Eastern was meant to connect continents without pause—capable of carrying thousands in unmatched luxury. But from its sideways launch ...

On the 27th of last August, when the Great Eastern was endeavoring to make this port by way of the Sound, off Montauk Point she struck on a sunken rock not noted down in any chart, and tore a ...

The New Yorker, October 10, 1953 P. 45. PROFILE of the Great Eastern, the biggest ship in the world at the time of its launching in 1858. Part IV tells about her 3rd transatlantic cable-laying ...

The ship was aptly christened 'The Leviathan', as it was 692 feet long and weighed more than 19,000 tons – three times more than the biggest ship of the period. It was also the first steam ship ...

THE GREAT EASTERN.; Interior Arrangement and the Machinery. Comparative Diagram of her Proportions, A Detailed and Illustrated Description of the Great Ship. Share full article.

Bure Valley Railway opened in July 1990 after new track was laid on the former Great Eastern Railway between Aylsham and Wroxham, Norfolk. This weekend, ...