SS Great Eastern

British sailing steamship
Vehicle steamship Q733293
SS Great Eastern
most likely Robert Edward Holloway (d. 1904) according to source · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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SS Great Eastern

Summary

SS Great Eastern is a steamship[1]. It ranks in the top 0.64% of steamship entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (889 views/month, #3 of 468).[2]

Key Facts

  • SS Great Eastern's image is recorded as Great Eastern 1866-crop.jpg[3].
  • SS Great Eastern's instance of is recorded as steamship[4].
  • SS Great Eastern's instance of is recorded as encyclopedia article[5].
  • SS Great Eastern's manufacturer is recorded as Millwall Iron Works[6].
  • SS Great Eastern's Commons category is recorded as Great Eastern (ship, 1858)[7].
  • SS Great Eastern's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027dj6[8].
  • SS Great Eastern's significant event is recorded as order[9].
  • SS Great Eastern's significant event is recorded as keel laying[10].
  • SS Great Eastern's significant event is recorded as ship launching[11].
  • SS Great Eastern's significant event is recorded as maiden voyage[12].
  • SS Great Eastern's significant event is recorded as service entry[13].
  • SS Great Eastern's significant event is recorded as service retirement[14].
  • SS Great Eastern's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Great Eastern (ship, 1858)[15].
  • SS Great Eastern's Commons gallery is recorded as SS Great Eastern[16].
  • SS Great Eastern's location of creation is recorded as London[17].
  • SS Great Eastern's maximum capacity is recorded as {'unit': 'Q319604', 'amount': '+4000'}[18].
  • SS Great Eastern's maximum capacity is recorded as {'amount': '+418'}[19].
  • SS Great Eastern's depicted by is recorded as The steamship Great Eastern laying the first successful Atlantic cable[20].
  • SS Great Eastern's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[21].
  • SS Great Eastern's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • SS Great Eastern's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[23].
  • SS Great Eastern's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Great-Eastern[24].
  • SS Great Eastern's published in is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[25].
  • SS Great Eastern's Facebook username is recorded as SSGreatEastern[26].
  • SS Great Eastern's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+211'}[27].

Why It Matters

SS Great Eastern ranks in the top 0.64% of steamship entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (889 views/month, #3 of 468).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). SS Great Eastern. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/ss-great-eastern
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  1. 21d ago · Ankermast · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location of creation London
    Country of registry United Kingdom
    Nominal power output {'unit': 'Q160857', 'amount': '+8000'}
    Draft {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+9.1'}
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P176]]: [[Q207380]]"
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