SS Great Britain
Filed under Uncategorized • 29-09-2006 •
Becky and I spent the evening on the SS Great Britain. At the time of her launch in 1843 she was by far the largest ship in the world – not to mention probably the largest metal object in the world – and the first screw-propelled, ocean-going, wrought iron ship. She was the fastest way to cross the Atlantic – the Concorde of her day.
I also printed out the first draft of my new story ‘A Hundred Thousand Billion Years’ – the tale of a doomed holiday romance in a doomed universe.
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