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English: Original caption: "Wreck of the U.S.M. Steam Ship 'Arctic'. Off Cape Race Wednesday September 27th 1854. On her homeward voyage from Liverpool, during a dense fog, she came in collision with the French iron propeller 'VESTA,' and was so badly injured that in about 5 hours she sunk stern foremost by which terrible calamity nearly 300 persons are supposed to have perished."
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Wreck of the U.S.M. steam ship "Arctic", from an N. Currier lithograph held at the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Original TIFF scan converted to PNG at one-third original size for upload, due to limitations on image size for thumbnails.

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Author James E. Buttersworth (artist) 1817-1894

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