Ships Ghosts .... Forgotten Abandoned

Dear friends

  My article does not wake up keeping it; it will tell you about the facts and stories of people who themselves saw it with their own eyes some are no longer alive, but their manuscripts still have their children and grandchildren still alive they will be able to give us what their grandfathers told them Great-grandfather ...

And so dear readers, the first thing you will hear about this ship is the Great East, which was colorful in 1958, it was one of the big passenger ships that plowed the expanses of the seas, and also one of the unlucky ones.

Strange things happened on this ship, and someone could not explain it ...

The idea to build this liner belonged to Izamberad Brunel

He wanted to build the largest passenger liner at that time

He managed to persuade financiers to invest $ 600,000

During the construction of the ship, two workers were killed under mysterious circumstances

And one of the riveters working inside the hull disappeared without trace during the ship's descent to the water, there were very big problems: if the ship was lowered longitudinally, it would crash into the opposite bank of the river for the first time, a block descent of a vessel of massive construction into the river was tried, but then a strange breakdown occurred The ship is firmly stuck in the stocks and the mute will move from the place as if the sea did not take it, but someone did not pay attention to it, the breakage was eliminated for a long time, because of this, the ship was delayed to the water.

At the end, it was appointed the day of the launch Liner on the water 2 December 1857 the ship began to slowly launch, but suddenly there was a breakdown, there was a skew, with respect to the movement it happened, because it was impossible to lower, the extreme winch synchronously one of the drums began to unwind,

Five people were seriously injured Brunel managed to stop the ship and fix it on the platform the descent was postponed for a long 3 months and cost the company 120,000 pounds. Brune was fired and he was asked to lower Great Istren at his own expense all his attempts were failed by the ship so And remained on his vengeance only on January 31, 1858, a very large tide, together with a hurricane wind, reaching the ship, lowered the ship to the water.

Finally in the sea

Afterwards. A few hours after the descent, the ship was sent to a test flight (Brunet was not present on the ship's dispatch to 1 flight due to illness) and suddenly for the ship there was an explosion of the boiler (as one of the newspapers wrote through the fault of sabotage) in the boiler room which led to great destruction by The aforementioned facts of the first of the ship's pipes and the deck nearby, as eyewitnesses said, the trumpet soared like a missile with the death of 6 crew members and 9 were seriously injured. Upon learning of this, on September 15 Brunet died of a heart rupture.

But the troubles again began to lie in wait for the ship during the crossing from the ship to the port on the boat Captain and 2 passengers under mysterious circumstances drowned

But in December 1861 fell into a storm that disrupted the steering wheel and propellers, damaged part of the passenger cabin. The steamer with great difficulty reached the 7th day before the port of Cob. Repair cost about £ 60,000

While executing one of the flights, Great Eastern collided with an underwater rock and got a hole 3 meters wide and 25 meters long, only a double bottom saved this ship from the death of the liner passengers saying that they heard very loud knocking on the bottom of the ship as if someone was tapping a sledgehammer on it Nowhere in the world was there such a Bolshova dock to perform repairs on this liner.

After 5 months, the repair was completed, it cost the company 70 thousand pounds sterling.

The ship was installed on the ship by a stacker and on July 5, 1865 the ship sailed off the coast of Ireland, laying the cable on the bottom, but first on the second, then on the seventh day of the voyage insulation faults were recorded: wires made of hard and brittle steel, broke on bends and broke through the insulating Shell. I had to lift them and repair them. On August 2, the cable (it was laid already 1 968 km) broke off and went to the bottom. All attempts to raise him were futile.

The last years of Great East

In 1874 a special ship for cable laying, named Faraday, was built. Great Eastern was decommissioned and for more than 10 years was in jail. In 1885 it was bought for £ 26,000 and After used as a coal depot. In 1888 the ship was auctioned for £ 16,000 for scrapping.

Dismantling

The ship was dismantled 18 months before 1890, as sources say, 2 skeletons were found, between the hull of the ship it was more than one meter. The skeleton belonged to the riveter who disappeared under mysterious circumstances while building the ship; and 2 the skeleton belonged to the apprentice boy boy was found a bag with rusty tools and rivets. ....... about this tried to keep silent but maybe this was all the woes of this ship, see every flight, he was carrying 2 skeletons ...