GREAT EASTERN

a British mer- ' chant ve el of 18,915 tons, built in 185457. She became of note as the largest craft in the world up to that period. She was constructed of iron and had paddle and screw means of propulsion. Her ‘length extended 680 feet, and her ' breadth 8214 feet, or with her paddle _ boxes, 118 feet. She had six masts, five of which were of iron, and 7,000 yards efsail. Hight engines worked her screws and paddles, capable of 11,000 horse _ power. She was costly, unprofitable and unfortunate from the start. After a number of runs to New York, she _ became a troop ship, then a cable-laying ship, and finally declined to a sightseeing object. In 1888 she was broken } up.