THE LAST OF THE LEVIATHAN.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 74, 25 October 1888, Page 3

THE LAST OF THE LEVIATHAN.

;•■■•;■-;,- y - r: : ■;-,■; .... ♦ — r - > ;. 4;Home page* says :— The steamship: r Great Eastern, which has parsed through so many vicissitudes since hter^ltobh thirty years ago, wa^jbea^hed -near New Ferry, on the Cheshire; sjtiore of the Mersey, on Saturday: '■. On ! Wednesday at noon she was got under way, and started from the "Clyde on what is intended to be her last voyage. With her own steam she could maie aspeecl of four to five knots, but she was towed by the powerful steam-tug jStormcock. The weather waft bright when the vessels started, ifilif' nefi morning the wind freshened, -while dark masses of clouds pr dsajpa. ;th'e bad weather that foM^e|l^;;|i;he gale was at its highest wheji tKe vessels were off the Isle \oi Man about, six o'clock on Thursday evening. The tug oast loose the hawser, which seemed an impediment to navigation, . and while the engines of the big ship were stopped for a while she became ' practically unmanageable., the gale having full play against her hull, which, was very high out of the water.. For four hours she t^as 'rolled about at the mercy of tlie^sißas;' ; Heayy " g;oqds 4 on board w^^;da^cpa^ut4^lowV whilethe funnels swayed as if 'about to be ' dislodged. Notwithstanding ' that she stood 40 feet out of the water, . eOmo of the seas swept over her, and a: . large gangway was torn from its chains and^carried away. At length she : was got to windward, and the coiirse was directed to the Irish coast ; bntthe gale moderated, and on Eriday- morning the Stormcock (which had r kept near) resumed the ;towing M ; the ship,' which reached the l?ar of the Mersey at five o'clock on 1 Friday evening. It is saicl that the ship will now be broken! up; and the material sold ; but there, are persons who believe that some, Hflo will jet be found for „■ the vessel. , ;; ••: ..'..,. •"-'■: ■ '--•