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The Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Britannia (John Hewitt Commander) as she appeared leaving her dock at East Boston, February 3d, 1844, bound from Boston to Liverpool, a canal having been cut in the ice 7 miles long and 100 feet wide
Hand-coloured. This is the ship on which Dickens went to America in 1842, as recounted in his 'Amer-can Notes'. NMM has the silver wine set (by Lows, Ball of Boston), presented by the passengers to her commander, John Hewitt, at the end of that stormy voyage.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAH0228 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Places: | Unlinked place |
| Vessels: | Britannia (1840) |
| Date made: | 1840; 3 Feb 1844 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 289 x 453 mm; Mount: 483 mm x 637 mm |
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