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Originally Posted by freebeard

Here, have a link to an article you might like on Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Eastern.

The SS Great Britain was abandoned in the Falklands until the 1970s and then some guys recovered it and floated it across the Atlantic back to Bristol where it has been restored. There was an interesting episode where they had to sink it to within 2 feet of the river bed so it would fit under a more modern bridge before they could move it.

Google BBC Archive there is a documentary about it in there - amazing stuff.