Royal Mail Steam Ship Europa

Object summary

Title: Royal Mail Steam Ship Europa
Object ID: CC-R-0186
Date made: 1849
Place made: United States, New York, New York
Lithographer and publisher: Currier, Nathaniel
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

An uncolored lithograph of a port-broadside view of the SS 'Europa.' She flies the American flag on her foremast and a British ensign at her stern. The print depicts the steamship before her mizzen mast was removed in 1853. She regularly sailied to Liverpool-Halifax-Boston/New York. She was also notable for colliding with and sinking the emigrant ship 'Charles Bartlet' on September 2, 1848 in which 135 lives were lost.

Inscriptions

Type: stamp (faint)
Location: recto, bottom left
Text: Clark Collection MIT

Type: graphite
Location: recto, bottom right
Text: 9-27

Type: graphite
Location: verso
Text: R186

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Currier, Nathaniel

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