2 Season
12 Episode
How the Victorians Built Britain - Season 2 Episode 2 Britannia Rules the Waves
Michael Buerk learns how the Victorians built the biggest, fastest, most technologically advanced ships in the world, which helped the nation to dominate the high seas. In Portsmouth, he boards Queen Victoria's flagship HMS Warrior to reveal surprising construction secrets and the ways the ship kept the peace in international waters, before following in Brunel's footsteps aboard his luxury steamer SS Great Britain.
- Year: 2020
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: SBS, Channel 5
- Keyword: victorian england, engineering, architecture, british history, victorian era
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- Cast: Michael Buerk