The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1877)[1] is a nautical novel by William Clark Russell first published in 3 volumes by Sampson Low. According to John Sutherland, it was "the most popular mid-Victorian melodrama of adventure and heroism at sea."[2] It remained popular and widely read in illustrated editions well into the first half of the 20th century.[3] It was Russell's best selling and most well known novel.[3] Russell noted in a preface, the novel 'found its first and best welcome in the United States.'[2]
The novel was published nearly a century after the actual Wreck of the Grosvenor, in 1782; coincidentally the novel has the same name but is otherwise unrelated.