William A. Wallace executive officer on the famous SS Great Eastern gives a fascinating
account of the vessel s first voyage to North America in 1860. Believing the Great Eastern to
have enlisted the sympathy of the British public generally and I may say of the whole
civilized world I think it not out of place on the satisfactory completion of her first
voyage across the Atlantic to publish a brief but plain and unvarnished account of her doings
and the fact of my having had the honour of assisting in the navigation of this noble specimen
of naval architecture to the shores of the New World and back to the Old Country will I trust
be a sufficient excuse for my presumption. Reprint of the original edition from 1860.
