DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES
Jan. 23. An enormous steam-vessel, built at Bristol for the passage of the Atlantic, and named The Great Britain, left Kingroad in the Severn to come round to the Thames. Captain Hosken, formerly commanding the Great Western, took charge of the vessel. She encountered a heavy gale, and behaved nobly...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Gentleman's Magazine: and historical review, July 1856-May 1868 July 1856-May 1868, 1845-03, p.304-308 |
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Sprache: | eng |
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Zusammenfassung: | Jan. 23. An enormous steam-vessel, built at Bristol for the passage of the Atlantic, and named The Great Britain, left Kingroad in the Severn to come round to the Thames. Captain Hosken, formerly commanding the Great Western, took charge of the vessel. She encountered a heavy gale, and behaved nobly throughout; a heavy sea, which must have contained 2,000 or 3,000 tons of water, seemed for a moment to paralyse the vessel, stove in three of her starboard bow bull's-eyes, a portion of her carved figure-head was carried away, and the wooden fittings of her bulkhead with iron sheathing of both bows split above deck in two places. |
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ISSN: | 2043-3026 |