Great Eastern

an English iron steamship, before the “Celtic,” the largest ve el constructed, built (1854- 1858) at Milwall, on the Thames, for the Eastern Steam Navigation Co.; length 680 feet; breadth, 8214, or, including paddle-boxes 118 feet. From the first her career was unfortunate, the launching proce alone lasting three months and costing $300,000. After several unremunerative trips to New York she was employed first as a troopship, and then as a cable-laying ship, for which her size and steadine specially qualified her. Various attempts were afterward made to utilize her, but she at last came to be & mere —_ and was broken up in 1888.