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[LeoMunro]

May I please ask one more question about this week's effort in the Isle of Dogs?

Brunel's S S Great Eastern was built in Millwall, but where was it almost marooned in 1858? I ask because I think that Millwall Dock wasnt built untill 1868.

It's probably my misunderstanding something in the puzzle but you AB "experts" are so helpful -and friendly with it- that I thought I'd ask.

Love to all,

Lm

[JoolsTwo]

This may help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern

[Aquagility]

The Great Eastern was a giant steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. At the time of her launch in 1858 she was the largest ship in the world.

Although the design of the Great Eastern was groundbreaking, Brunel�s mighty vessel was considered a commercial failure as a passenger liner.

After being laid up in 1864, the Great Eastern was sold for �25,000 (the equivalent of about �1.3 million today), a fraction of its original cost, to a Greenwich-based cable-laying company. This next stage of her career was by far the most successful. From 1865 until 1872 she laid four telegraph cables under the Atlantic, and others to link Bombay and Aden.

By 1872, however, the Great Eastern had been made obsolete by purpose-built cable-laying ships. She ended her career as a floating billboard before being scrapped in 1888.


You'll find this and more on Google.

[Aquagility]

Coming back to your question, I think this may be a reference to the difficulty they had in launching the ship, sideways, at Millwall. If I remember, she would not move at first, and there were many who thought she was "marooned". Brunel, of course had faith and sent for bigger jacks.

[LeoMunro]

Very many thanks, Jim and Aqua, for your great help..

Can I take then that there was some sort of seaway in Millwall in 1858 before the Millwall Dock was built in 1868?

Cheers,

Lm

PS. Will Spanish ABers please take great care today - it's Tuesday the 13th!

[Aquagility]

YES
http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/e ngineeringItem.asp?id=549

[LeoMunro]

IOU1, Aquagility! Tip-top assistance along with speed of service. Be so kind as as to give your good self a warm pat on the back - take the rest of the day off even.

That is what I was really searching for.

When I do the Where Was I? puzzles on Sundays I try my best to cover all the compiler's clues - indeed consider them just as challenging as the two final questions. (The questions are not all that important to us non-UK folk who aren't allowed to enter.) But all the other info. in the puzzles is becoming a nice little Bumper Book of Britain that I would like to leave to my grand kids so that they can learn about the Old Country.

Thanks again Aquagility, and all the very best.

Lm