The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

THE GREAT BRITAIN AGAIN AFLOAT

The Great Britain has, by the perseverance and skill of
Mr. Bremner, been at length released from her rocky
prison in Dundrum Bay. On Monday her Majesty's
steamer Birkenhead returned from Kingstown to Dun-
drum Bay, and a steamer also arrived from Warrenpoint.
On Tuesday her Majesty's steamer Scourge arrived and
landed a number of men to assist in the operation. Two
large lighters were made fast to the Great Britain, one on
each side. On Friday night, when the highest tide of the
month occurred, the weather being calm and favourable,
-1 all the preparations complet, the great trial was
^s fully successful. The' huge structure was
-n water, and was towed by
..here she arrived at
...,.ernoor). She was rather leaky,
ome slight repairs, she was again taken in tow
Ind towards Liverpool at twelve at noon on
may observe that the Great Britain left
his port on the 22nd September last year, and got
shore in Dundrum Bay at nine the same evening.

made, and v

triumphantly drawn into d,
the Birkenhead to Belfast
o'clock on Saturd
but, aft(

t fom

LIVETEPOOI

A consi
[ng by a t

lsation was excited yesterday morn-

announcement to the effect that at
k.m., there had appeared off the Orms-
.ceamer, with five masts, in tow of a steamer,
.at the former " appeared " to be the Great Britain.
caution observed in this notice almost defeated itself.
tt five-masted steamer was ever heard of or could be
cted but the Great Britain ? and it was known before
she had been got off and, in due time, would be here

legrap

even: o'cloct
ieads a large

from Belfast, and necessarily in tow, as she bad no steam
up ; but she was not expected quite so soon, so that the
strange announcement assumed, to many, the appearance
of a hoax. Others, however, were sanguine,
_and as the

vessels, if they came at all, might be expected about noon,
with the tide, or soon after, thousands of persons
hurried to the quays and the landing stage, anxious

rrivaT of the C

_seviathan, and
d. her. Nor

with th

most kindly feelings towaras

were they to be disappointed. Our reporter pro-
ceeded by a river steamer, in which were a number
of gentlemen interested, to meet her, shortly after
twelve o'clock. At one o'clock she was seen looming
largely, yet indistinctly, in the distance (during a squall
with rain), as sbe came up the Victoria Channel, pre-

ceded by her Majesty's iron steam frigate Birkenhead,
(built at Birkenhead by Mr. Laird,) which had her in tow
with two hawsers. She very rapidly neared, until her
magnificent hull came into full view when she reached a
point off the Rock Battery, at half-past one o'clock. She
was gaily decorated with flags on all her five masts, audit
was a great delight to all who saw her, including several
nautical gentlemen, to remark, even by minutely examin-
ing her by the eye, to find that, notwithstanding all the

endure

;peer stre'

s above precisely in their origina

ing that her frame hai undergone no mutation in
form. There is no " hogging," or convex rise of the
decks, and there is no central or concave depression,
or anything indicating the slightest approach to a broken

.
back." It is impossible to conceive
to which she has been subjected, ln
rivetting must here and there be sligi
this can readily be renewed, and, in thi
similar circumstances, rests the superiority

Lie severe ordea

point, under

of an iron

over a wooden ship—that superiority being the toughness
and elasticity of the metal. We have to add—and we do
it to the satisfaction of the " Steam Navigation World,"
—that the Great Britain presents no more appearance of

age to sea. She is by no means weather-beaten, and,
with the exception of a little tarnished paint, looks as
" slick" as ever. On a near approach our reporter ob-
served some slight contusions and indentions in the
plates, but of no moment, as these little cutaneous in-
juries can speedily be remedied equal to new. She had
projecting from her stern a huge spar, (her main yard,
we believe,) acting as a temporary rudder, by means of a
rope, one on each side, leading to the steering wheel
through a block affixed along the taffrail, and projecting
on either side, forming outriggers. This rudder appeared
to be hung at an angle of about thirty-five degrees of
declension from the higher deck, aud, under water, was
I. at the outward end, forming a perpendicular
moveable from side to side by the ropes—a
lieu of the usual rudder,

capital

yet simple, contrivance in _
hich could not be attached, a portion of the after stern-
1-rn of the " screw," being carried away in the
..siding of the ship in Dundrum Bay.
deck appeared to be swarming with people.
As the Great Britain proceeded up the river, her re-
qnpearance, or rather somewhat unexpected
—nq welcomed by firing of gunson the Cheshire

post, a

The- vessel

resuscita-

inning at

up, with a pilot-boat
a speed which could

Birkenhead,

r steamer
though

i thus employed
is a noble and powerful

with a beautiful

lich would be greatly iir

or other decOratior

,e wom

at the pique, and the loi
f England, at her main

.t, or "whip

ly evident on seeing the Great

ng, bu

s were t

and that much

ired in cro3sin,

the -Iri.