City of Glasgow Schottisch

Coloured lithograph showing the ship City of Glasgow. The print is a design for a music cover. City of Glasgow was an Inman Liner. She was the first ship of their fleet under their original name, the Liverpool, New York & Philadelphia Steamship Co., and made her first run from the Mersey to Philadelphia in December 1850. She was noted for her comfort. On the 1st of March, 1854, she left Liverpool for Philadelphia, with 480 people on board and was never heard of again. She may have been the victim of the unusual amount of ice in the North Atlantic that year. (H. Parker & F. C. Bowen, Mail and Passenger Steamships of the XIXth Century, pp. 61-62).

Object Details

ID: PAH0262
Collection: Fine art
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Guth, F; Hall, W M, & Son Lee & Walker Sinclairs, T
Vessels: City of Glasgow (1850)
Date made: ca.1850
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 262 x 345 mm