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Painting. Royal Mail Steamers, 1835-1845. Oil on canvas, Off Southampton Water, the fleet of the Royal West India Mail Company (founded 1839), in March 1841, contracted to convey mail between Britain, West India and Gulf of Mexico, fleet of 14 steamships built to Admiralty specifications embodying John Scott Russell's wave-line principle, also usable in event of war, shown, 'Clyde' and 'Teviot' built of wood 1841 by Robert Duncan & Co, Greenock. The Clyde was broken up in 1865, a year after the lapse of the Teviot, United Kingdom.
Painting. Royal Mail Steamers, 1835-1845.
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