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    Sep 09, 2022 2 minutes
    By Dave Selby

    DOMINIC WINTER AUCTIONEERS

    Flop of the first world cruise

    The first ever round-the-world leisure cruise, which set off from Southampton in 1881, was too far ahead of its time, and too much to bear for one disgruntled passenger who committed suicide.

    A recently discovered journal (below and top right) penned. Among the wonders Essery witnessed was one he hadn’t accounted for, recording in his journal: “The unhappy man had flung himself wildly from the fore part of the ship and must in a few moments have been beyond all human help.”

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