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Book Brunel's Great Western also includedModel Built from Scratch using original plans and interior details.Great Western was a trans-Atlantic steamship with paddle wheels. Paddle wheels are done in great detail with the port side intact and starboard side exposed to show detail.
Decks are exposed and lit, showing the Great Room with table and suites for high paying passengers. Boiler and engine room exposed and lit.Great Western was one of the first luxury trans-Atlantic. Below is a brief 19, 1837
Great Westernwas a four masted, iron-strapped, oak hulled, side-wheel paddle steamer.The sails were used to provide auxiliary propulsion and in rough seas to keepthe ship on an even keel. This helped ensure that both paddle wheels remainedin the water. She was the largeststeamship for one year, until the British Queenwent into service. She was fitted with two side-lever steamengines from the firm of Maudslay, Sons &Field, producing 750 indicated horsepowerbetween them.
Great Westernwas arguably the first true trans-Atlantic luxury steamer (think Titanic). She was the brainchild of Isambard Brunel, atrue pioneer in passenger ship travel. Shewas the model by which later luxury steamers were designed. Note the “main saloon” and luxury cabins onthe cut-out section. The engine room isalso exposed, showing the boilers, red to the right, and pistons driving thegreat paddlewheels.
Rapidtechnologic and economic change made outdated for Great Western forluxury passengers by 1847. She was sold andbegan making runs to the West Indies and South America. In 1856 she became a troop transport andlater that year she was sold for scrap and broken up.
Great Westerndisplaced 2,300 tons and was 235 feet long. Her beam was 57 feet 8 inches andtop speed was 8.5 knots.
Model: from scratch, 1:96 scale Modeler: Bill J. Johnson, MD
Table:Single slab Patagonian Rosewood
