where was the first iron boat made and launched?

Answer 1

This is the SS Great Britain, made by Isambard Kingdom Brunel which is now on display at Bristol. (Or so I believe)
It spent half a century hauled up in the Falkland Islands as a coal storage hulk, was towed back to Britain to be restored. This restoration is nearly complete, but I do not know the launch date.

Answer 2

Captain Nemo and crew built it on a nameless volcanic island
in a semi-tropical location. The date is uncertain as was its nationality. Clues suggest the 1860's of Baltic or Indian origin.
It also may have utilized nuclear power and if so is qualified to
share the same "boat" status as the present day attack sub.
Note: 1860's also produced the iron boat CSA Hunley
and the iron boat USS Alligator as submersibles.
SS Great Britian, while iron, was a steam ship.

Answer 3

Hi Fred,
I think it is mine, a big steel thing first floating in 1530, by the looks of it.
Before IKB pitched up with a copy of the plans, took them to Prontaprint for an enlargement, and had the "Brittania" riveted together.
Oh well, a lick of bitumen and some gloss & varnish later...
I appear to be still afloat.
Displacement & all that.
Or perhaps it was my great uncle Henry, who sank miserably in an old tin bathtub, with a bit of wood stuck in the plug-hole, on an expedition across a Northumbian lake, which lasted about 10 yards before the amusing inevitable happened.

Bob.

Answer 4

The SS Great Britain was launched in 1843 in Bristol and was designed by Isambard kingdom Brunel

Answer 5

SS Great Britain - Isle of Dogs London

Answer 6

Willey- river Severn at Wiley Wharf?

Answer 7

I Don't know