    
Title: British passenger ship Great Eastern Description: The British passenger ship, Great Eastern, center right, passes the Narrows to enter New York Harbor on its maiden crossing from England (carrying forty-three passengers, thirty-five of them paying, and a crew of 418); the Great Eastern was then the largest passenger ship in the world, 692 feet long and weighing 25,000 tons, constructed at a then staggering cost of $3 million, and could carry 4,000 passengers; Location: New York, New York, June 28, 1860 Keywords: passenger ships, sail-and-steamships, steamships, vessels Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 4650 x 2703 (12.57 MPixels) (1.72) Print Size: 39.4 x 22.9 cm; 15.5 x 9.0 inches File Size: 35.98 MB (37,728,700 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095743 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
