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Loss of the Steamboat Swallow while on her trip from Albany to New-York, on Monday Evening April 7th 1845. When opposite Athens she struck a large rock, took fire broke in two and sunk-By which melancholy occurrance, it is supposed that nearly 40 lives were lost
Hand-coloured.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAD6691 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Currier, Nathaniel |
| Places: | Unlinked place |
| Vessels: | Swallow 1836 [American] |
| Date made: | 1845 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Mount: 279 mm x 397 mm |