See my other steamship and nautical magnets.	DESCRIPTION This fridge magnet features an 1860 broadside advertising the maiden voyage of the Great Eastern steamship, captained by Commander John Vine Hall. From its aborted launch in 1858 until 1899, 10 years after it was scrapped, it was the world's largest steamship. The Great Eastern was originally known as the Leviathan. The ship's history is a long list of problems and failures. It's most productive years were in laying telegraph cable from 1865-74. The Atlantic Cable was laid by the crew of the Great Eastern, in 1866. The market for passenger fares was not large enough for ships with the Great Eastern's capacity (4,000) and it's brief use for that purpose was in 1867 when France chartered it to transport Americans to the Paris Exposition. Among those passengers was Jules Verne who in 1874 wrote a book about the voyage, Une Ville Flottante. AD261 Size: 4” x -3-1/4” (10.16cm x 8.25cm)	Hi there. Thanks for clicking in.   Any jagged lines in the picture result from image resolution being downgraded for the web and will not appear on your magnet, nor will any part numbers or sample marks.  The size this magnet appears to you depends on your monitor size & settings, is different for every person and I have no control over it.  You should use size info provided at left to determine whether the size works for you.