OCR Text |
Show Great Eastern Surely World's Unluckiest Ship At Mlllwallana there still exists the massive concrete bed and slipway laid down over seventy years ago for the building and launching of the Great Eastern, probably the unluckiest ship ever constructed. The first time she put to sea an explosion below the decks killed ten of her firemen. On her maiden voyage her captain fell overboard and was drowned. Next she ran on a rock and ripped open her hull. Following this, her crew seized her tor their unpaid wages, she having sailed for New York prepared for 2,000 passengers and returned with l'.U. When the vessel was broken up the skeleton of a workman, who had disappeared mysteriously during her construction, was found wedged between be-tween the outer and inner plating of her hull. |