The Steam Ship President., (The Largest in the World) Lieut. Roberts R.N. Commander on her last voyage from New York to Liverpool.

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• PUBLISHER: Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Cor. of Spruce St. N.Y.

• MEDIUM: Lithograph, hand colored.

  DATE: 1844.

• EDITION SIZE: Small folio - 7 15/16 x 121 1/2" (20 x 31.8 cm) plus title and margins.

• DESCRIPTION: Lower title continues: As last seen from the Packet Ship Orpheus, Capt. Cole in the terrific gale of March the 12th 1841 at 5 o'clock P.M. Lat. 39, 46. - Long. 71, bearing N.E. by E. by Compass steering East."<br><br> The S.S. President was a British passenger liner that was the largest ship in the world when she was commissioned in 1840, and the first steamship to founder on the transatlantic run when she was lost at sea with all 136 passengers and crew. The ship's owner, the British and American Steam Navigation Company, collapsed as a result of the sinking.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Fair to good condition. Several short tears in the margins, one just into the image in the upper left. Original hand coloring.

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• CATEGORIES: Currier & Ives , Marine , Steam