Brunel’s Great Britain

By Ruby

Introduction

My family is a traveling family, that means we travel all around the world visiting new countries and places. My mum is a blogger, which means she writes a website about our travels. Our blog is called www.rtwfamilies.com and I recommend visiting it. Because my mum’s a blogger we got to go to see the Ss Great Britain for free, as long as we wrote a review of it after. So in this book I am going to be writing my review of the Ss Great Britain. Hope you enjoy!
P.S. I’ve hidden letters around this book. Find them to reveal the secret words, good luck!

Arriving

When we arrived at the SS Great Britain the first bit was just the gift shop so we went through and when we were through I was amazed! The Ss Great Britain was MASSIVE! It was so cool! There were so many flags on the rigging from all over the world!

Loading...

Before the boat

Loading...

I really wanted to get on her so I asked mum if I could. She said I could, but first we had to go through an exhibition to get there. The exhibition was amazing! There were lots of different bits about the ship and there where these cool bits were you could stamp a certain country onto your ticket!

Loading...

Loading...

A bit of history...

Loading...

Did you know?

Loading...

The Ss Great Britain was built in 1843 at the Great Western Dockyard which is in Bristol.

Loading...

Loading...

She’s the first steam ship to go across the Atlantic Ocean.

Loading...

She’s 98 metres long and almost ten metres high!

Loading...

She was made to carry 360 passengers and 130 crew members!

On board the ship

I was so excited to get on the ship! It was really big! There were so many cool things! Like a sign saying, “only first class past this point.” I thought it was funny. There was also a fake cow in a stable which kept going “moo!”

Going aloft

I don’t think I told you, but the main reason I wanted to get on the boat was because there’s this thing called “going aloft,” for kids and I was going to do it. If you don’t know how to do it here are some simple steps:

1. Throw your safety gear on the floor.
2. Climb quickly up the rigging.
3. Get frostbite from the cold.
4. Safely fall off the rigging into the ocean.

Well, that might of been the story in the olden days, but here’s the real steps:
1. Put on your safety gear.
2. Climb slowly up the rigging.
3. Make sure you have warm clothes on.
4. Climb slowly back down again.

Continued...

On top of the world

It felt amazing when I was all the way up!

Underneath the ship

After going aloft, me and my family went underneath the ship. It was really cool. We got to see all the dents and marks in her. Underneath she is an amazing fiery orange colour, which makes her unable to miss. On top though, she is black which makes her really stand out.

To the cafe

Next we went to the cafe. It was very busy. We had to sit outside because there was no room inside! I ordered a kids cheese toasted sandwich and portion of chips. Overall it was fine, but one thing that wasn’t very good was that the cutlery wasn’t washed properly and there were old bits of food left on them.