Extracts from Contemporary Sources on the Wreck and Salvage of the SS Great Britain in Dundrum Bay

Voyage box 7, item 23

1 typed transcript of a series of extracts from multiple contemporary sources on the wreck and salvage of the SS Great Britain in Dundrum Bay.

1. Mercantile Register and Weekly Advertiser, not dated. Extract is announcement of the stranding of the SS Great Britain
2. The Statesman and Dublin Christian Record. Letter of Rev. P. Church, addresses the wreck. Dated 23 September 1846
3. North American Royal Mail Company. Extract is an account of a meeting with the North American Royal Mail Company to arrange alternative transport for the SS Great Britain passengers. Dated 26 September.
4. Anonymous passenger account, not dated.
5. The Statesman and Dublin Christian Record. Letter of Rev. P. Church, describes the night of the wreck.
6. European Times, not dated. Extract is about the passengers, specifically the 48 Danseuses Viennoise passengers.
7. Illustrated London News, not dated. Extract is about what happened to the baggage of the passengers
8. New York Daily Tribune, not dated. Extract is a description of the ship interior.
9. New York Daily Tribune, not dated. Extract describes a defect in the navigation chart used and that may be why the SS Great Britain was stranded.
10. New York Daily Tribune, not dated. Extract briefly describes the sea.
11. The Statesman and Dublin Christian Record. Letter of Rev. P. Church, extract describes lunch.
12. The Statesman and Dublin Christian Record, not dated. Extracts describes the passengers behaviour and reactions to the wreck.
13. New York Tribune, not dated. Extract describes the moment of the wreck.
14. Letter of Rev. P. Church. 'It was a wonderful escape... May we all be admonished by this event'
15. London Mercantile Gazette, not dated. Extract is about whether the compass was working or not
16. The Statesman and Dublin Christian Record, not dated. Extract states passengers religious activity
17. The Statesman and Dublin Christian Record, not dated. Extract describes passengers getting off the stranded SS Great Britain.
18. The Statesman and Dublin Christian Record, not dated. Extract describes the landscape of the area where the SS Great Britain got stranded.
19. The Statesman and Dublin Christian Record. Letter of Rev. P. Church, Extract is an account of the wreck.
20. The Downpatrick Recorder, not dated. The Extract describes a refloating attempt.
21. Letter from James Combe to the Great Western Steam Ship Company, dated 11 December 1846. Transcipt of the letter.
22. The Newry Telelgraph, dated 31 August 1847. Extract of article: 'Deliverance of the "Great Britain" from the Sands of Tyrella and Departure for Liverpool'.
23. The Downpatrick Recorder, not dated. Extract is about the refloating of the SS Great Britain.
24. Rev. Dr. S. H. Cox, sermon on 26 November 1846. Transcript of sermon "God's Providence in the Wreck of the Great Britain".
25. Extract of letter from Brunel to Claxton.


1 typed transcript of multiple extracts. 19 sheets in total