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Early Steam Ships

 

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The first great iron steamship,
Rainbow, was launched 1838. In
thefollowing year, Pettit Smith
designedhe Archimedes, the first steamer touse a screw propeller, followedquickly by Brunel's Great Britain,which crossed from Liverpool to
New York in 14.5 days 1845

 

The "Charlotte Dundas" built by William Symington in 1801
was a catamaran with a boiler in one hull and an engine in the other, with a paddle wheel in between
The Steamship "Great Western" was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and built in 1858. It was the largest Steamship of its time carrying 10000 troops.
THe "Sirius" in 1838 became the first ship to steam across
the Atlantic Ocean