The Royal Mail Steam Ship "Arabia" 2,900 Tons, 900 Horse Power

Object summary

Title: The Royal Mail Steam Ship "Arabia" 2,900 Tons, 900 Horse Power
Object ID: CC-R-0197
Date made: 1852
Place made: United Kingdom, Greater London, London
Publisher: Ackermann & Co.
Printer: Day & Son Ltd.
Lithographer: Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth
Draftsman: Walters, Samuel
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

A starboard-broadside view of the paddle steamship 'Arabia' heading to New York with mail on the River Mersey. As a Cunard liner, she regularly made passages from Liverpool to New York; her fastest journey was 9 days and 17 hours in August 1853. She was the last wooden Cunard ship to be built. A smaller steamship navigates perpendicular to the 'Persia' to the left of her stern; the passengers on the two ships greet one another.