The SS Great Britain (designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel) was the world's first major ocean liner to be constructed entirely out of iron with a screw propeller. It first debuted in 1845 as a passenger liner and operated for 92 years before it was eventually scuttled in the Falkland Islands in 1933. A rescue attempt was later made in 1970, and the ship was floated back its Bristol drydock on April 13. The vessel was converted into a museum ship in 2005 to showcase to visitors the beginning of the cruise and ocean liner industries, with the vulnerable iron hull kept in a dry glass chamber to protect it from corrosion.
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