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[esmeralda]

while barmaids worked to design his ship

[dannyk13]

Isambard(Brunel) -anagram of barmaids

[dannyk13]

He designed the Great Eastern ship(among others)

[aelmpvw]

was the word 'while' included just to confuse me?

[dannyk13]

It does seem superfluous.

[JJ109]

The answer though is (5,7)
Is it Great Eastern, Great Western or Great Britain Brunel designed all three!

[dannyk13]

(It would have helped had the OP included the letter pattern

[bluebell56]

Dannyk13, JJ109. It is No.75 and the letter count is 2,5,7.

[aelmpvw]

well that gives us ss to start with

[dannyk13]

Could be SS Great Britain, SS Great Western or SS Great Eastern

[Toorak]

Jj09 already indicated that

[dannyk13]

Toorak,yes, I know that, what's your point?

[Toorak]

Well why do you need to repeat it?

[dannyk13]

Why do you make smarts comments about what has been posted?

[Toorak]

Why do you need to constantly post answers that have already been given?

[dannyk13]

I don't constantly post anything.If you are not posting anything appertaining to the OP then I suggest that you don't bother.

[Chinajan]

I haven't seen the quiz myself - could the 'while' refer to or be a continuation of the previous question, as occurs in many crosswords?

[elliemay1]

The 'while' is probably because the previous qn relates to 'barmen'

[Chinajan]

Thought it must be something like that elliemay1

[elliemay1]

I'm going with SS Great Britain. I think they will probably allow the other two as well as they have the same number of letters