File:Burning of the Steamship Golden Gate July 27 1862 RMG PY0271.tiff
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English: Burning of the Steamship Golden Gate July 27 1862 A hand-coloured lithograph of the burning of the New York-built merchant steamship Golden Gate (1851), which caught fire off the coast of Mexico in 1862 on a voyage from San Francisco to Panama. She was carrying 242 passengers and a crew of 95, of whom only 100 apparently survived. Some of her substantial cargo of silver and gold was salvaged by divers. (H. Parker and F.C. Bowen, ‘Mail and Passenger Steamships of the XIXth Century’, London, 1928, p. 125). This dramatic lithograph shows garish yellow and orange flames sweeping across her wooden decks, causing panicked passengers and crew to jump overboard. Three packed lifeboats in the foreground pull away from the conflagration. Mounted with PAH0272.A hand-coloured lithograph of the burning of the New York-built merchant steamship Golden Gate (1851), which caught fire off the coast of Mexico in 1862 on a voyage from San Francisco to Panama. She was carrying 242 passengers and a crew of 95, of whom only 100 apparently survived. Some of her substantial cargo of silver and gold was salvaged by divers. (H. Parker and F.C. Bowen, ‘Mail and Passenger Steamships of the XIXth Century’, London, 1928, p. 125). In this dramatic lithograph, garish yellow and orange flames sweep across her wooden decks, causing panicked passengers and crew to jump overboard. Three packed lifeboats in the foreground pull away from the conflagration. Mounted with PAH0272. |
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| Date | 1862 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Sheet: 286 x 394 mm | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Box Title: Steamships 1843-1854. | ||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/140218 | ||||||||||||||||
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Print Room Location Code: 50 G 1851 Unidentified Prints & Drawings Number: B2288 id number: PAH0271 |
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| Collection | Fine art | ||||||||||||||||
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