Bound for Australia
Subtitle: The loss of the emigrant ship Tayleur at Lambay on the coast of Ireland
Publisher: Edward Bourke
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780952302735
Subjects: shipwreck
Genres: Maritime
First sentence: The story of the Tayleur has been told many times in the myriad of enquiries in 1854, even 150 years after the loss of the ship there is still a tale to be told around the tragic events.
Description: The story of the loss of the emigrant ship Tayleur at Lambay island north of Dublin in 1854 with the loss of nearly 400 lives.  The inquiries blamed seamanshp and faulty compasses.   Many of the survivors continued to Australia in the Golden Era. The Tayleur belonged to White Star line a predecessor of the line that owned the Titanic. The Tayleur  was a steel clipper ship of 1750 tons built at Warrington, inland  on the Mersey by the Vulcan Foundry.  Many of the emigrants were Irish, Scottish French and German but the majority were English.
Notes: Data on the magnetic errors of the compasses,   conjecture on the path of the ship and whether she was doomed to destruction anyway.   Refutation of the blame on foreign crew.
Table of contents: title: Building the ship
pagenum: 8; title: Passengers & crew
pagenum: 25; title: The loss of the Tayleur
pagenum: 35; title: Inquiries and inquests
pagenum: 47; title: Philantrophy & Pillage
pagenum: 138; title: Legends & Folklore
pagenum: 155; title: Ballads & poems
pagenum: 166; title: Modern diving & artefacts
pagenum: 183; title: Accounting for the passengers
pagenum: 191; title: references
pagenum: 206; title: Crew and passenger lists
pagenum: 211