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The Tayleur

Lambay Island, County Dublin

The 'first Titanic', wrecked on her maiden voyage.

The Tayleur was a large new iron sailing ship of the White Star Line. On her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia in January 1854, her compasses went wrong because of the iron hull, and she was driven onto Lambay Island in a storm.

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When
21 January 1854
Where
53.4900, -6.0100
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

Lambay is a private island. A memorial stands at Portrane on the mainland.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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