Sujet

The "Earl Cathcart" Steamer aground among the Islands of the River St. Lawrence, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

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The "Earl Cathcart" Steamer aground among the Islands of the River St. Lawrence, [Canada], 1850. Steamship '...with troops on board from Montreal to Port Stanley, en route to London, Canada West...It was one of the most beautiful passages of American scenery - the Lake of the Thousand Islands...There was considerable consternation...exhibited on discovering that we had lost our course, and that we were either aground, or on shore, or on a reef of rocks - the mist was so thick, it was impossible to say which...Fortunately, a small flat-bottomed sloop, with a slip-keel, approached, in answer to the flag lowered to half-mast. A quantity of iron ballast, and some of the baggage, was now removed; and, after protracted haulings on cables, and tuggings of ropes, and energetic workings of paddles, to our great joy, she was once mere afloat.' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A33_248

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

45,5Mo (3,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 27,1cm / 4960 x 3205 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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