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1859 The
Great Ship Company Ltd |
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Stock Code GSC01 |
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Certificate,
for one share in
this shipping company, dated 1st March 1859. Printed signature
of the company secretary.
Red and white certificate with imprint of Great Eastern as the
company seal.
Certificate size is 21
cm wide x 13 cm high (9" x 5.5"). It will be mounted in a
mahogany frame, with gold inlay, size 40 cm wide x 30 cm high.
The certificate is shown unframed
as all items are mounted to order.
About This
Company
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Framed Price : £110.00
Unframed Price : £70.00 |
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About This Company
The Great Ship Company's most famous asset was the Great
Western which was purchased from Brunel and renamed the Great Eastern. On
June 17th 1860 it made its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.The
huge cargo holds never were filled to capacity, and in 1864, after years of
deficit operation, the ship was sold to the Great Eastern Steamship Company,
which used it as a cable vessel until 1874. it was during this time that it
laid the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable. Cable laying was
interrupted in 1867, when it made a voyage from Liverpool to New York to
attract American visitors to the Paris Exhibition. Jules Verne was on this
passage and wrote about the ship in his novel Une Ville flottante
(1874; The Floating City). It was broken up in 1889. |
