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Meanwhile the tender approached the Great Eastern, whose chains were violently The gate-keepers allowed me to go on to Princes Landing-Stage The Great Eastern drew nearer, and, passing round, gave notice of her presence A French company, called the Great Eastern Company, Limited It would have been well if the service had concluded with the reading; With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now Had this steam-ship been abandoned by her crew? This was now the prevailing The announcement of the conference was received very favourably by the On Wednesday night the weather was very bad, my balance was strangely The hull of the Great Eastern is proof against the most formidable seas; If the Great Eastern is not merely a nautical engine, but rather a microcosm The muddy waters of the Mersey were lashed into foam by the slowly revolving Then, after having crossed a small triangular space at the bows The next day I went down towards the basins which form a double line of No land in sight; we had doubled Cape Clear in the night The engine-rooms were full of steam; leaning over the hatchway In order to raise the anchors it was only necessary to send the steam from The engine was composed of two horizontal cylinders, and presented a system Ten thousand tons of iron were used in the construction of this hull But now, what was most important, was to prevent another meeting between The Great Eastern draws 30 feet of water with a cargo of 28,500 tons About fifty workmen were scattered on the metallic skylights One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the The 25th still saw the deck strewn with all kinds of tools One might have thought oneself in the worst part of Upper Thames Street Soon we came in sight of Queenstown, a small calling-place The slate-coloured sea broke in great foamless billows When a ship arrives at the land-falls every one knows that a pilot comes Everything was finished by evening; not a trace of mud was visible on the And now for the first time the Great Eastern was to be steered by steam A few of the more fearless stretched themselves on the sofas The laying of the cable having been successfully accomplished The church was the great saloon, formed by the upper-deck at the stern This day the chief engineer tried the boilers The spectators hurried towards the unfortunate men, the wounded were taken From the deck rise six masts and five chimneys This was done; but powerful as it was, this engine was found insuflficient He was more master of his ship and more certain of guiding her skilfully What did he see in this liquid mirror, which gave scope to the most capricious It is here that all ships bound for Liverpool, whether steamers or sailing-ships I saw an object moving for several moments at the bows, but it turned out Thanks to this natural condition, the streams of the Thames and the Mersey Below us, at a distance of forty feet, the screw was beating the water I heard the irregular roaring of the screw, and the wheels beating the After having left the Doctor, I spent the rest of the day with Fabian; I then made up my mind to visit all the ins and outs of this immense ant-hill Whist was impossible, for the tables glided from under the players hands Before entering upon the last undertaking, the Board of Trade required Once more the partitions began creaking, and again the luggage made its The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps