Earthenware soup plate with a floral border, transfer-printed with a starboard-broadside view of a paddle steamer inscribed 'STEAMER FORFARSHIRE'. The name is also shown in reverse on a pennant. Below the vessel is a fortified gateway (part of the arms of Forfar) with four standards each side including those bearing the arms of Dundee and Edinburgh. The mottoes of Dundee '[PRUDENTIA] ET CANDORE' and 'DEI DONUM' are legible. 'DUNDEE AND HULL STEAM PACKET COMPANY' is inscribed on the underside of the rim, and the maker's name is impressed on the base. The Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Company, founded after a merger in 1826, carried passengers along the east coat between London and Scottish ports. 'Forfarshire' 1836 was famously wrecked on the Farne Islands 7 September 1838. Grace Darling and her father William, Keeper of the Longstone lighthouse, rescued the survivors.