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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The great Eastern in a Storm — she Experiences a terrific gale and Breaks her Rudder, &c. (search)
The great Eastern in a Storm — she Experiences a terrific gale and Breaks her Rudder, &c. The steamship Great Eastern arrived at Queenstown on the 17th ult. She experienced a terrific gale when two days out, about two hundred and eighty miles west of Cape Clear. The furniture and luggage on board were mostly destroyed, and some of the passengers injured. It was expected every moment that the ship would go down, and in that case the loss of life would have been very large. Temporary steering gear was finally fitted, and the ship put back with her crew, going at the rate of nine knots an hour. A correspondent from Liverpool writes as follows: Further details of the disaster to the Great Eastern indicate that the calamity entirely arose from the breaking of her rudder. The scene on board the vessel was fearful in the extreme. Everything breakable on board was broken. She ship rolled so violently that her boats, although placed thirty or forty feet above water, wer