Royal Mail Auxiliary Screw Steam Ship Clarendon 1000 Tons Register
Coloured lithograph depicting the Royal Mail Auxiliary Screw Steam Ship Clarendon. This ship was called Tejo from 1858-1869 under new owners Uniao Mercantil, and renamed Kent in 1869 under new owners Bailey & Leetham Ltd. Built by A. Leslie & Co in Gateshead-on-Tyne, she was one of an unsuccessful class of steam ship, that was often slower in practice than sailing vessels. (Mail and Passenger Steamships os the XIXth Century, p.73).
Object Details
| ID: | PAH9007 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Foster, William; Dutton, Thomas Goldsworthy Day & Son |
| Vessels: | Clarendon (1855) |
| Date made: | 1855 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 420 x 607 mm |
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