For the unrelated 1782 wreck of the same name see Wreck of the Grosvenor

Wreck of the Grosvenor

The Wreck of the Grosvenor, an East Indiaman, occurred on Sunday 4 August 1782 on the Pondoland coast of South Africa, north of the Umzimvubu River mouth. The shipwreck was close to the place where the Portuguese ship, São João, had gone down more than two centuries earlier on 8 June 1552...

The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877) is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell

William Clark Russell

William Clark Russell was a popular American writer of nautical novels and horror stories.Born in New York City, he gained his experience of sea life during eight years' service as a sailor...

 first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low

Sampson Low

-Life:Born in London in November 1797, he was the son of Sampson Low, printer and publisher, of Berwick Street, Soho. He served a short apprenticeship with Lionel Booth, the proprietor of a circulating library, and, after a few years spent in the house of Longman & Co., began business in 1819 at 42...

. According to John Sutherland, it was "the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea." It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well into the first half of the 20th century. It was Russell's best selling and most well known novel. Russell noted in a preface, the novel 'found its first and best welcome in the United States.'

The novel was published nearly a century after the actual Wreck of the Grosvenor

Wreck of the Grosvenor

The Wreck of the Grosvenor, an East Indiaman, occurred on Sunday 4 August 1782 on the Pondoland coast of South Africa, north of the Umzimvubu River mouth. The shipwreck was close to the place where the Portuguese ship, São João, had gone down more than two centuries earlier on 8 June 1552...

, in 1782; coincidentally the novel has the same name but is otherwise unrelated.

External links

• The Wreck of the Grosvenor at Internet Archive
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