Were You There? ; with the 40th Anniversary of the Ss Great Britain's Homecoming Only a Year Away, Gerry Brooke Talks to the Ship's Dr Kate Rambridge About a Celebratory Project Did You See the Iron Ship's Homecoming?

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › July 21, 2009

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The ss Great Britain's salvage operation, 39 years ago, captured not only this country's but the world's imagination.

A BBC outside broadcast led by Magnus Magnusson covered the ship's re-entry into the very dock where she had been built.

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Were You There? ; with the 40th Anniversary of the Ss Great Britain's Homecoming Only a Year Away, Gerry Brooke Talks to the Ship's Dr Kate Rambridge About a Celebratory Project Did You See the Iron Ship's Homecoming?

And eight million people were glued to a BBC2 Chronicle programme, The Great Iron Ship, which documented the event.

Newspapers were quick to champion the story with Brunel's pioneering ship making headlines not only in Bristol but all over the world.

Her dramatic story a...

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