Sujet

The new Inman steam-ship City of Rome, for Liverpool and New York, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The new Inman steam-ship City of Rome, for Liverpool and New York, 1881. 'This new ship...has been built at Barrow-in-Furness, by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company...her indicated horse-power 10,000...The stern frame or post, the largest single forging ever made for such a purpose, weighs 33 tons. Two of the decks are completely of iron...A high rate of speed - eighteen knots per hour - combined with comfort and safety, is attained by the construction of this great ship. She is driven through the water by a propeller 24 ft. in diameter worked by three sets of inverted "tandem" engines. The crank shaft is a built shaft, and, with the screw shafting, has been made by Sir Joseph Whitworth and Co. of their fluid compressed steel...Below is the large diningroom...Each diner has his own revolving arm-chair, and a large American organ is fixed at one end of the room...Special arrangements are made for emigrants, the Inman Company having been the first to carry an emigrant across the Atlantic by steam, and having carried since its formation about one million passengers between Liverpool and the United States...there is accommodation for...a grand total of 1500 [passengers], on a very enlarged scale of comfort, light, and ventilation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A43_197

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

21,2Mo (1,9Mo) / 29,9cm x 17,8cm / 3528 x 2102 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation ocean arts industry steam art ship ships British geography industrial liner ocean liner Atlantic Ocean century Britain steam power first newspapers press print concept emigration B&W engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships transatlantic trans-atlantic shipping Industry steamship 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News passenger ship steam ship wood engraving ILN newspaper shipping line Unknown Inman Line 19th-century The Illustrated London News JR Wells Wells JR J. R. Wells Wells J. R.