{"product_id":"rms-tayleur-gordon-j-mackenzie-9798181498860","title":"RMS Tayleur: The Shipwreck That Foreshadowed the Titanic","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn January 1854, a new iron sailing ship left Liverpool for Melbourne carrying emigrants, families, workers, children, and gold-rush dreamers bound for Australia. \u003cb\u003eRMS Tayleur\u003c\/b\u003e was meant to represent the future of ocean travel: large, modern, ambitious, and connected to the early White Star enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin days, she was wrecked against Lambay Island off the coast of Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe disaster exposed a fatal chain of confidence and failure. Tayleur's iron hull, once a symbol of progress, created serious compass problems. Her crew was not equal to the demands of a large emigrant ship. Her maiden voyage became a test she was not ready to pass. Passengers who had boarded for the other side of the world were forced to fight for life across rock, rope, surf, and cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften remembered as the \"first Titanic,\" \u003cb\u003eRMS Tayleur\u003c\/b\u003e stands as one of the most haunting maritime disasters of the nineteenth century. Like \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e decades later, she was a celebrated vessel linked to White Star ambition, lost on an early voyage after public confidence outran practical safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the ship, the emigrants, the wrong course, the wreck at Lambay Island, and the warning history did not hear loudly enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gordon J. MacKenzie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181498860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Gordon J. MacKenzie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874736910591,"sku":"9798181498860","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rms-tayleur-gordon-j-mackenzie-9798181498860","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}