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Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd, often known as Great Eastern Life or simply Great Eastern, is a Singaporean multinational insurance company and subsidiary of OCBC Bank operating in the Southeast Asia region. Founded in 1908 by Alfred Hewton Fair, it is the largest and oldest life insurance company in Singapore and Malaysia.
SS Great Eastern was an iron-hulled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by John Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall Iron Works on the River Thames, London, England. Powered by both sidewheels and screw propellers, she was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 ...
The building includes a 20-story office tower as well as an 8-story podium block named the Great Eastern Mall. Out of the 8 floors of the podium, 6 floors are dedicated retail floors whereas the upper floors house the client’s training centre complete with multi-purpose hall and seminar rooms, a childcare centre as well as recreational ...
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A company was formed that converted Great Eastern into a cable layer and Halpin was given the post of First Engineer. Their task was to lay a submarine transatlantic telegraph cable from Valentia Island, County Kerry to Heart's Content, Newfoundland. The cable, 2,600 miles long was stored in the ship's tanks and weighed 6,000 tons.
SS Great Eastern, a steamship built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1858, the largest ship of its era; Great Eastern Railway, a defunct English railway company formed in 1862 First Great Eastern, a defunct train operating company on the Great Eastern Main Line; Great Eastern Main Line, a British railway line
This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time. If a given ship was superseded by another, scrapped, or lost at sea, it is then succeeded. Some records for tonnage outlived the ships that set them - notably the SS Great Eastern, and RMS Queen Elizabeth.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern is a photograph taken by Robert Howlett in November 1857. It shows Brunel, the British engineer, during the troubled first attempt to launch the SS Great Eastern, by far the largest ship constructed to that date. Brunel stands before a drum of chain used during ...