SS Great Eastern
She also had six masts (said to be named after the days of a week – Monday being the fore mast and Saturday the spanker mast), providing space for of sails (7 gaff and max. 9 (usually 4) square sails), rigged similar to a topsail schooner with a main gaff sail (fore-and-aft sail) on each mast, one "jib" on the fore mast and three square sails on masts no. 2 and no. 3 (Tuesday & Wednesday); for a time mast no. 4 was also fitted with three yards. In later years, some of the yards were removed. According to some sources she would have carried . This amount of canvas is obviously too much for seven fore-and-aft sails and max. 9 square sails. This (larger) figure of sail area lies only a few square metres below that the famous Flying P-Liner "Preußen" carried – with her five full-rigged masts of 30 square sails and a lot of stay sails. Setting sails turned out to be unusable at the same time as the paddles and screw were under steam, because the hot exhaust from the five (later four) funnels would set them on fire. Her maximum speed was 24 km/h (13 knots).
SS Pacific (1849)
Between 11 and 21 September, "Pacific" made a record passage from Liverpool to New York with an average speed of , breaking the previous record of 12.25 knots held by the Cunard Line's "Asia", and thus winning the coveted Blue Riband for fastest transatlantic crossing. "Pacific" would hold the record for less than a year however, as her sister ship "Baltic" would set a new record the following August with a new record speed of . Between 10 and 20 May 1851, "Pacific" also set a new eastbound record with an average speed of 13.03 knots, beating the previous record of 12.38 knots set by the Cunard Line's "Canada". Again however, the record would stand for only nine months before being broken again by "Pacific"s slightly more-powerful sister ship, "Arctic".