The Wreck of the Atlantic. [plus four additional lines.]

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• PUBLISHER: Published by Currier & Ives 125 Nassau St. New York.

• MEDIUM: Lithograph handcolored,

  DATE: 1873

• EDITION SIZE: Small folio - image size 8 x 12 1/2" (20.3 x 31.7 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Title continues "This Splendid Steamship of the White Star Line, on her voyage from Liverpool and Queenstown to New York, April 1st 1873, bore away for : Halifax, being short of Coal, and while under a full head of steam, struck upon Golden Rule Rock, near Mars Island, on the Coast of Nova Scotia, she : heeled over and sunk in less than fifteen minutes afterwards, by which awful disaster 562 Lives were lost. The Atlantic was 437 ft long, 40 ft breadth : of beam, depth of hold 33 ft. Tonnage 3783. Commanded by Capt. J. A. Williams, and had on board at the time of the disaster 952 Persons."

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition and color, save for a minor mat line.

• REFERENCE: Conningham #6787. Gale 7340.

• CATEGORIES: Currier & Ives , Naval, Nautical & Marine , Shipwrecks