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o J6 The Spectator, Thursday, June 25, 1970 Old iron liner returns home AVONWUTH, England (Reuters) — The steamship Great Jiritain, the world's first iron-built liner and once the pride of Victorian England, was towed into port this week, 84 years after a gale crippled her off the notorious Cape Horn. The ship arrived rusted, battered and derelict, but standing proudly on the floating pontoon which brought it 9,000 hazardous miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Thousands of people flocked to the coast near this new port downriver from the maritime southwestern city of Bristol to watch the return of the Great Britain from the Falkland Islands, its forlorn resting place since 1886. WHEN IT WAS launched in 1843 the ship was the first ocean-going liner to be built of iron and the first vessel fitted with a screw propellor. But bad luck pursued it from the outset. Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort, missed its bows when he threw the traditional bottle of champagne at the Bristol launching. Quickly he threw another which burst on a group of dock workers. While its famous designer, Isambard' Kingdom Brunei, looked on, its 3,270 tons slithered toward the lower dock — and stuck. A tug boat crew struggled to free it, hauled it back into the basin and closed the lock gates saving it from being left high and dry by the liner tide. THREE YEARS later the prestige liner went aground off Ireland. Designer Brunei got it floated and taken to Liverpool. After that it was sold off cheaply for the Australian emigrant trade. In February, 1886, after another change of ownership it sailed from Wales laden with coal, refitted as a sailing ship, its iron hull clothed in wood. Off the Falklands a gale struck her. There it was abandoned, and used as a wood and coal store until 1933. Now, after many years of dereliction, the ship has at last come home. illliiffli! -CP The last of a kind The only known steam sternwheeler in Canada, the Sampson J7, paddles its way across Pitt Lake towards British Columbia's Fraser River. The vessel is operated by the federal department of public works to keep the Fraser and its tributaries free of obstructions.