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BRUNEL’S PROPELLER

SS GREAT BRITAIN, BRISTOL

IMAGE NUMBER 1141b

SS Great Britain is a passenger steamship. She was the longest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), for service between Bristol and New York. Not only was she the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic, which she did in 1845, but also the first ship to do so, driven by a propeller - designed by Brunell himself. The ship is now open to the public in the Bristol dry dock where she was built.

TECHNICAL NOTES

The image was taken with a hand-held Phase One 645XF Camera at ISO 200. Exposure of 1/125th of a second and an aperture of F4.5. Schneider Kreuznach 45 mm lens with leaf shutter. The image was captured on a Phase One IQ3 100 megapixel digital back.