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REPORT UPON THE LOSS OF THE
'GREAT LIVERPOOL STEAMER.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany's Office, 51, St. Mary-axe, London.
April 7, 1846.
The committ e appointed by the minutes of the Board
of the 31st March, 1846, to investigate the circum-
stances connected with the loss of the Great Liverpool
steam-ship, on the morning of the 24th of February, at
four (,'clock, about ten miles from Cape Finisterre, re-
port that
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thericommandereeio,3dsis
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district
that
the
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vessel at four o'clock in the morning of that day, by her
striking on a rock or shoal ;
Having closely inspected the log of that ship for 48
hours previous, as well as her logs for 21 previous home-
ward-bound voyages—the night order book of the late
commander, containing the orders given on the night of
the 23d of February, at eight o'clock, as well as the day's
works or reckonings of the officers of the ship, as sent
in on the previous noon ;
Having closely examined the following witnesses, who
were on board the Great Liverpool when she was
wrecked, viz.:—Mr. George Hamilton, chief officer; Mr.
George Mial!, third ditto; Mr. Neil Cook, second ditto;
Mr. William Bencraft, fourth ditto; Mr. Edward Lane,
purser; Richard Williams, seaman (man at the wheel);
James Beale, carpenter ; Mr. Samuel Wright, first
engineer,
As well as Captain John Bowen, of the merchant ser-
vice (a passenger.on board, and who has been a com-
mander in the coasting trade upwards of four years, and
twelve years in the merchant service in India):
That gentleman expressed himself to tho committee
to the following effect:—
That, "He felt perfectly satisfied with the truthful-
ness of the compasses.
That, " The vessel wit; steered very correctly.
That, "Having worked the ship's reckoning for that
day, as was his usual practice on the voyage, he felt satis-
fied the course steered, N.N.E. and N.N.E. E., ought
dftivaroreasih:t That,
o,wavaerdtakofecnapteheFien-eisssteelrrnei.ne to twelve miles to the
he
which'e lias
he
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rbo
wyf
aorpdisn reasonhi ounpoptfho
supposed
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be
unaccountablew a s
occasioned carried
ibns
by
a succession of easterly gales, which had prevailed in
the Atlantic for some days previous to and after the
wreck of the Great Liverpool.
That, "He (Captain Bowen) was very much eased
and gratified with the good order and
discipline l
which
prevailed on board the Great Liverpool.
That, "Captain M‘Leod was always most attentive to
his duties, as were also the several officers of the ship,
and the orders were given and carried out with a degree
of quietness that struck him forcibly.
That, "He never observed the duties on board a
sbip carried out with more efficient regularity."
On the examination of Captain C. F. Burney, of the
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Pacha,
and Mr. James Carter, the chief officer of that vessel,
they stated
That, " After leaving the Rock of Lisbon, on her last
homeward voyage, on the afternoon of the 2d of March,
1846, they experienced an unusual inset, the vessel being
drawn towards the land, and that the course was conse-
quently altered two points to the westward of the course
then steering, which circumstance was noticed in the log
at that time.
That, " On the 4th of March, when the loss of the
Great Liverpool was heard of on board the Pacha,
Captain Burney, was of opinion that it must have been
occasioned by the extraordinary and unsual inset which
had prevailed on the coast for several days."
Raving examined Captain John Soy, of the Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Oriental, he
stated as follows :
That, " The Oriental passed Cape Finisterre, on her
last outward voyage on the 25th of February, at six P.M.,
the day after the Great Liverpool went on shore, at a
distance of from eighteen to twenty-two miles to the
westward of it.
That, "He found a remarkably strong inset, so that,
instead of making the Burlings ten miles on the port
bow, as he expected, he made them on the starboard
bow, showing a difference in the position in which the
vessel ought to have been, according to the course
steered, of from fifteen to twenty miles in a run of 210.
That, " He had experienced an inset before, but never
to such an extraordinary degree as on the occasion
alluded to."

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sanctioned by her Majesty. But
future be a veil for the past ? We . alli7eaPlirdaletoola. Zit 4.
the Jesuitical dogma has been broacWhy Ike Valk°
the society, that whatever the dofdpircg,itre-ronidl
however unjust, partial, and flagitious, once Prat
they are to have the force of law to the fellows; addlitN
are told they are in honour bound to lick the rod dig
injures them. This would, indeed, be in the school o
loyola—to uphold the dishonour, instead of the hot our
of th eitociety.
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But what ought to be done to purify our first scientific
institution, so jobbed and so abused ? Will the Physic,.
logical Committee, which has caused the Society to stinli
in the nostrils of all decent people, be allowed to remain
unreformed ? Will the medical section of the Roys]
Society still be marred by the exhibition of scientific
Jesuitry. of partisanship, of petty cliqueries, of favour-
itism, of selfishness, of mean cringing, of want of
sympathy with real genius, of rrivate enmities, and
other baleful feelings, which degrade both the men and
the profession? If the individual, who might almost be
called the medical portion of the Royal Society, be indis-
missible, the Marquis of Northampton should resign, and
repudiate-his nets. If he does not the one or the other,
the blame and discredit will be divided between them.
One thing is very certain, that suspicion will hover about
the proceedings of the Society for some time to come,
and every step will be narrowly watched. When medical
men see, that of six Royal medals in physiology, the
award of one only has been perfectly satisfactory, they
will for the future ask, not who obtained the Royal
medal? but, what was it obtained for? The professional
eye, once awakened, will be keen enough for the detec-
tion of injustice; and when injustice is done, a Royal or
a Copley medal will be a very poor iEgis to ward off the
deserved punishment.

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