Shipping the Atlantic Telegraph onboard the Great Eastern

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steam-ship Great Eastern receiving the Atlantic cable from a smaller vessel. The cable was manufactured at Messrs. Glass and Elliott in East Greenwich, loaded onto smaller cargo ships, the Amethyst and the Iris and then onto the Great Eastern where it was stored in huge coils. The 1865 expedition to lay the transatlantic cable ended in failure due to bad weather but was successfully completed the following year

Amethyst Brunel Brunels Coils Ended Failure Greenwich Iris Isambard Loaded Manufactured Messrs Onboard Smaller Stored Successfully Transatlantic

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