Great Western Dockyard · Bristol

Board the SS Great Britain

Step onto the ship that was the largest in the world when it launched in 1843.

• ⏱ 45 min
• 💷 ££
• 🥾 Easy

Brunel's SS Great Britain was the first ocean liner with an iron hull and a screw propeller, decades ahead of anything else afloat. It sank off the Falklands, sat as a wreck for decades, and was towed 8,000 miles back to the dry dock it was built in.

What you’ll do

1. 1Find the dockyard
2. 2Go aboard
3. 3Prove it

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