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  LITHOGRAPHS

N. CURRIER & CURRIER & IVES

B. EARLY STEAMSHIPS

   ARCTIC - Loss of the steamship off Cape Race
Wednesday, September 27, 1854. While on her
homeward voyage from Liverpool, she was run
   into bythe French Iron Propeller "Vesta" and so
badly injured that in about 5 hours she sank
stern foremost carrying down with her all on
board; by which dreadful calamitynearly 300
persons are supposed to have perished.

N. Currier 1854
"Early Steamships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 4"
by Felix Riesenberg

ASIA - Royal Mail steamship. Wood paddle steamer
-2,225gt 1850 Greenock Cunard Line. Maiden voyage
1850 Liverpool-Halifax-Boston. Initially carried 160
cabin passengers and 112 crew. Last voyage to Boston
for Cunard in 1867. Sold and converted to sail.
Destroyed by fire at Bombay in 1877

Lith & pub by N. Currier, July 1851
C5236, G5672
   Vanessa Rudisill Stern's
   Gallery of Currier & Ives Lithographs

AUSTRALASIAN - Royal Mail iron screw steamship
- 2,760gt 1857 Glasgow. Built for European &
Australian Royal Mail Co. service Suez-Australia
   In 1859 sold to Cunard, and in 1860 in Liverpool-New
York service. In 1869 re-engined, a funnel removed
and renamed CALABRIA. Sold by Cunard in 1876.

C5237, G5673
Vanessa Rudisill Stern's
Gallery of Currier & Ives Lithographs

Battle of Hampton Roads Between USS MONITOR
and CSS VIRGINIA (ex-USS Merimac). Fought over
two days Narch 8-9, 1862. It was the first battle between
two armoured (iron clad) vessels. 'Monitor' 2 guns and
'Virginia' 11 guns.

C5996, G6464
Vanessa Rudisill Stern's
Gallery of Currier & Ives Lithographs

             DREW, ST. JOHN and EXCELSIOR - American
   Steamboats on the Hudson Passing the Highlands

Del. Parsons & Atwater; Currier & Ives 1874
"Early Steamships Currier & Ives Prints No. 4"
by Felix Riesenberg

GOLDEN GATE - Burning on Jul. 27th 1862. on
her voyage from San Francisco to Panama having
on board 242 passengers and a crew of 91 persons,
of whom only about 100 are known to have been
saved.

Currier & Ives undated.
"Early Steamships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 4"
by Felix Riesenberg

EAGLE and DIANA - A race on the Mississippi

Currier & Ives 1870
"Early Steamships - Currier & Ives No, 4"
by Felix Riesenberg

GREAT BRITAIN - Iron auxiliary screw steamer.
3,443t 1845 Bristol. Originallyshe had a 6 mast
rig and had this rig when she visited New York in
1845. The 4 mast rig was adopted in 1852 and her
final 3 mast rig in 1857. She made 35 voyages to
Australia from liverpool an one from London
from 1852 to 1876. She was sold in 1881 and again
in 1882 and converted to sail. In 1886 she was
condemned at Port Stanley in the Falklands and
hulked and later beached. In 1970, the hull and
two masts were returned to Bristol where the vessel
has been restored and is now a museum ship.

"Off Sandy Hook May 14th 1852"
Lith and Pub by N. Currier
Cnone, Gnone
Vanessa Rudisill Stern's
Gallery of Currier & Ives Lithographs

S.S. GREAT EASTERN - "The Mammoth Iron Steam-
Ship 'Great Eastern' 22,500 Tons, 3000 Horse Power."
"Designed by I.K. Brunel Esq. F.R.S. Built by Messr
Scott Russell, London. Weight of Iron used in the
construction 10.000 Tns. Combined Steam power
3,000 horses & spreads 6,500 sqare yards of canvas.
To walk round the Deck exceeds 1/4 mile.

C3957, G4292
      Vanessa Rudisill Stern's
Gallery of Currier & Ives Lithographs

   MISSISSIPPI - U.S. Steam Frigate in a Typhoon
   On her passage from Simoda, Japan, to the
   Sandwich Islands, Oct. 7th 1854

Del. E. Brown Jr; Currier & Ives 1857
"Early Steamships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 4"
by Felix Riesenberg

S.S. SAN FRANCISCO - Wreck of the
steamship "San Francisco". Disabled on her
voyage from New York to San Francisco,
Deceber 24th 1853, and in a sinking condition.

Painted by F.P. Butterworth; N. Currier 1854
"Clipper Ships - Currier & Ives Prints No.3"
Introduction by Capt. Felix Riesenberg

SCOTIA - iron paddle steamer - 3,871gt 1862 Glasgow
Built for the Cunard Line for the Liverpool -New York
service. At completion she was the largest ship afloat
apart from the GREAT EASTERN. In her service with
Cunard from from 1863-1869 she held the eastbound
Blue Ribbon for five years. She ended her career as a
cable laying ship.

Cnone, Gnone
Vanessa Rudisill Stern's
Gallery of Currier & Ives Lithographs

WABASH -U.S. Steam Frigate, 60 guns. off
Cape Hatteras, Jan. 7th 1857

Currier & Ives undated
"Early Steamships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 4"
by Felix Riesenberg

S.S. WASHINGTON - Rescuing the passengers
of the ship "Winchester" of Boston (Thursday,
May 2, 1854) Mr P.W. King, First Officer of the
"Washington", and 4 of the crew making the
first trip to the wreck. (Passengers saved 445,
Crew 32. Total 447)

From a sketch by Mr Vincent passenger
on board the "Washington".
N. Currier 1854
"Early Steamships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 4"
by Felix Riesenberg

SOURCES;

1. "Early Steamships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 4"
   by Felix Riesenberg (The Studio Publications Inc,
New York 1933)

2. "Cliipper Ships - Currier & Ives Prints No. 3"
   Introduction by Capt. Felix Riesenberg
(William Edwin Rudge, New York 1932)

3. Vanessa Rudisill Stern's Gallery of Currier & Ives
Lithographs at:"
      http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/-vstern.index.html

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