The Great Eastern.
Is any millionaire iv want of a steam yacht? If 80j that whitest of white [elephants the; Great Eastern — the despair of its owners, though monarch of the seas— ris ay ilable for a bagatelle of £5000 per annum. Since it waa long ago unavailingly offered by auction m. the City, the gigantic -vessel, onoe as the chief . triumph, of Mr Scott Russell's geoitfa, ti *a been idly lying at Milford Haven, not only eating the head off, bat— as the shareholders could testify — other portions • i bf its stupendous frame. What to do with [ thi« 25,000 tons burthen/ thus wasting their sweetness on the . ocean air, the Great Eastern Shipping Company know not ; so once again' they, appeal for somo offer, that the nautical masterpiece may not gradually perish ot senile decay unutilised. Is any seaport m want of a breakwater, or any Barnum desirous of opening a penny peepshow on tb^| Thames ? .Now is the time to strike bargain; ; r ; , . _~ , ;
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 107, 13 April 1883, Page 2
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165The Great Eastern. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 107, 13 April 1883, Page 2
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