Development
After the initial success of its first liner, SS Great Western of 1838, the Great Western Steamship Company collected materials for a sister ship, tentatively named City of New York. The same engineering team that had collaborated so successfully on Great Western—Isambard Brunel, Thomas Guppy, Christopher Claxton and William Patterson—were again assembled for the new project. This time however, Brunel, whose reputation was at its height, would come to assert overall control over design of the ship—a state of affairs that would have far-reaching consequences for the company. Construction of the vessel would be carried out in a specially adapted dry dock in Bristol, England.
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