{"id":487322,"date":"2026-03-21T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487322\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:38:10","slug":"all-hands-on-deck-for-ss-great-britain-museum-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487322\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;All hands on deck&#8217; for SS Great Britain museum fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With 100 competitors expected to take part, there will be a series of distractions, including &#8220;Mr Brunel himself doing everything he can to deter even the most determined competitors&#8221;, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pharoah, the trust&#8217;s director of people and development, said it was an &#8220;exciting chance to potentially win the ship for the night&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And a brilliant way to rally together as a community to support one of Bristol&#8217;s most important cultural icons,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SS Great Britain was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and launched from Bristol in 1843.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was the world&#8217;s first iron-hulled screw-driven ocean liner and sailed around the world 32 times, covering more than one million miles (1.6m km) at sea, before being brought back home to Bristol in 1970 and eventually opened to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 100 competitors expected to take part, there will be a series of distractions, including &#8220;Mr Brunel himself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}