SS Great Western, an oak-hulled paddle-wheel steamship, the first to be purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic.

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SS Great Western, an oak-hulled paddle-wheel steamship, the first to be purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic. She left Bristol on April 7 1838 and arrived in New York Harbour on April 23. From The Romance of the Merchant Ship, published 1931.

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