RMS Tayleur
From Graces Guide
RMS Tayleur was a full-rigged iron clipper ship chartered by the White Star Line to serve the booming Australian trade routes. She was large, fast and technically advanced. She ran aground off Lambay Island and sank, on her maiden voyage, in 1854. Of more than 650 aboard, only 280 survived. She has been described as "the Victorian Titanic".
Designer: William Rennie of Liverpool. Constructed by Charles Tayleur's Bank Quay Foundry on the sinuous River Mersey in Warrington for Charles Moore and Co. Launched on 4 October 1853, just six months after laying the keel.
Length 230 ft.
For much more information, see Wikipedia entry and here. For contemporary accounts of the launching, see Bank Quay Foundry.
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