Steam-Ship City of Baltimore Screw propeller between New York and Liverpool

Hand-coloured lithograph print depicting the steam ship City of Baltimore. Chartered by the French as a transport to the Crimea even before she was launched. She belonged to the Inman Line and was considered a fast ship. In 1874 she belonged to the Hall Line and had the name Fivaller, and in 1882 owned by Spaniards and named Benicarlo, where she was re-engined and run as a tramp. (H. Parker and F. C. Bowen, Mail and Passenger Steam Ships of the XIXth Century, pp. 56-7).

Object Details

ID: PAH0289
Collection: Fine art
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Currier & Ives
Vessels: City of Baltimore (1855)
Date made: 1855
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 314 x 402 mm