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 RMS Tayleur in full sail
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Tayleur |
| Namesake | Charles Tayleur |
| Owner | Charles Moore & Company |
| Operator | White Star Line |
| Port of registry | Liverpool |
| Ordered | 6 Feb 1853 |
| Builder | William Rennie, Liverpool |
| Cost | £50,000 |
| Laid down | April 1853 |
| Launched | 4 October 1853 |
| Acquired | 1854 |
| Maiden voyage | January 19 1854 |
| In service | January 19 1854 |
| Out of service | January 21 1854 |
| Fate | Ran aground on the east coast of Lambay Island on maiden voyage, 21 January 1854 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Clipper, iron hull |
| Length | 230 ft (70 m ) |
| Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
| Draft | 21 ft (6.4 m ) |
| Depth of hold | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Propulsion | sails |
| Complement | 654 people onboard |
| Notes | 3 decks |
RMS Tayleur was a full-rigged iron clipper ship chartered by the White Star Line. She was large, fast and technically advanced. She ran aground off Lambay Island and sank, on her maiden voyage, in 1854. Of more than 650 aboard, only 280 survived.[1] She has been described as "the first Titanic".[2]
- ^ Guy, Stephen (2010). "Wreck of the Tayleur". National Museums Liverpool Blog.
- ^ Starkey, H. F. (1999). Iron clipper "Tayleur": the White Star Line's "First Titanic". Avid Publications. ISBN 1902964004.