SS Great Eastern the water company supplying Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in Dorset, UK, and used as a filtering device. It was later transferred to the Bristol Maritime Museum close to Brunel's SS "Great Britain" then moved to the SS "Great Britain" museum. SS Great Eastern SS "Great Eastern" was an iron sailing steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by J. Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the River Thames, London. She was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to
SS Malabar (1858) abandon ship. There was no loss of life. The passengers included James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros, the British and French plenipotentiaries to China, and "The Times" journalist Thomas William Bowlby, who later published an account of the wreck. It was reported that "Malabar"s cargo included 1,080 boxes of bullion, worth nearly £300,000 and 725 chests of opium. SS Malabar (1858) SS "Malabar" was a P & O mail steamship of 917 tons launched in 1858 that was wrecked in Point de Galle harbor on 22 May 1860. The passengers had embarked on "Malabar" when a