The Great Ship

The Great Ship also known as 'The Great Eastern' was invented by Isamabard Kingdom Brunel. This great ship was suppose to hold at least 4000 people. This ship was going to be the first one made out of both iron and to be the most luxurious ship. When they started to build The Great Ship, there was alot of accidents, scandal and misfortunes. One incident that had happened was the Shipyard where they were building the ship, had burned down and everything was lost in this fire, including plans.After 90 days of pushing the boat into the water, the boat floated on the 31^st January, 1858.  With all the building and the disagreements, the boats financial was 4 times over what they thought. Brunel's health was also not going to well. On the first day of 1889, the wreckers came in and started to demolish the boat. To their surprise, they had found two bodies on-board the boat, one was only a child. This had thought to 'jinxed' the boat and this is why the boat was such a fail. Overall, The Great Ship was a humiliation to Brunel as a passenger ship, but as an engineer ship it was a great success.