In fact , she was the first German ship to exceed the size of the famous SS Great Eastern .
The first two sisters had been quite similar in appearance , length and tonnage , but the new Kaiser Wilhelm II would be considerably larger than her older siblings .
She was the first German ship to exceed the size of the famous SS Great Eastern .
The first two sisters had been quite similar in appearance , length and tonnage , but the new Kaiser Wilhelm II would be considerably larger than her older siblings .