I thought it was St. Patrick's Day for a minute there... BBC News
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SS Great Britain...
Campbell Brodie-
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Topdog-
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weird,
Campbell Brodie-
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...no one has yet explained the reason for this. Maybe SS Great Britain was the prototype for Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat's" pea-green boat...
Topdog-
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or it got dragged down by algae
3rdforum-
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Why didn't they just put in green uplighters?? 
Topdog-
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Invite a load of skool kidz on and tell them to flick over the side. 
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Think that was the first Iron made steam ship. They put masts on so it looked like a proper boat.
Campbell Brodie-
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Perfectspecimen wrote:Think that was the first Iron made steam ship. They put masts on so it looked like a proper boat.
Some neat info here red duster