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Description: | Painting. Royal Mail Steamers, 1841 / c1841. Oil on canvas; [sight] 74x110cm in gilt frame 118x154x8cm. Off Southampton Water, the fleet of the Royal West India Mail Company (founded 1839); in March 1841, contracted to convey mail between Britain, West India and Gulf of Mexico; fleet of 14 steamships built to Admiralty specifications embodying John Scott Russell's wave-line principle, also usable in event of war; shown, 'Clyde' and 'Teriot' built of wood 1841 by Robert Duncan & Co, Greenock. The Clyde was broken up in 1865, a year after the lapse of the Teriot | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | oil painting | Temporal: | 1835-1845 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Unattributed | Identifier: | 1868-71 | Go to resource |
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