Alas, the end of the Eastern came with more of a whimper than bang. After suffering far too many accidents, and far too many money troubles, the Eastern passed from one hand to another until eventually the largest ship in the Victorian world came to a humiliating end, first as a floating billboard in Liverpool and then finally broken up and sold as scrap.

- It took two full years just to dismantle this ship (gives you an idea how big it was).
- A mysterious dead body was found inside the special double hull (one can only imagine the desperate story of that stowaway...)

At least Brunel didn't see the sad and pathetic end to his magnificent Great Eastern, though he didn't live to see its majesty either. Brunel died only four days after the great ship's first sea trial.

Liverpool is now a giant billboard of Liverpool.
The ship was dismantled at Rock Ferry the other side of the river from Liverpool.
Liverpool Football Club use a mast from the ship as their flagpole, at the Kop end of the ground.
The skeleton was probably that of a mysterious highly gifted child who used to play the piano on the ship.
Liverpool is full of stories. Some of them are not true.

Amazing...thanks and POP!

amazing ship.