178. TRANSATLANTIC STEAM SHIP COMPANY
an Imari pattern-decorated shallow dish, the base transfer-printed with a portside view of the paddle-steamer Liverpool, the base bearing a similar transfer with ‘Liverpool’ below -- 6½in. (16.5cm.) diameter
A very rare survival from one of the pioneering North Atlantic steamship lines.
There were only three steamship lines offering North Atlantic passenger services before the advent of Cunard in 1840, the smallest and least known of which was the Transatlantic Steam Ship Company (T.S.S.C.) sailing out of Liverpool. An offshoot of the pioneering City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, the T.S.S.C. employed only two ships, the first of which, Royal William, was borrowed from the Dublin fleet whilst the second, Liverpool, was ordered for the same concern but purchased ‘on the stocks’ for the new venture. Registered at 1,050 tons and measuring 223 feet in length with a 31 foot beam, she had accommodation for 98 passengers and could just manage 7.5 knots at full steam. In the event, she proved completely unsuitable for North Atlantic sea conditions and, after arriving home in January 1840 at the end of her seventh voyage, she was laid up for major alterations. Before these were completed however, her owners decided to merge with P. & O. who renamed her Great Liverpool and put her to work on their main Iberian route where she remained until wrecked off Cape Finisterre on 24th February 1846.
£300-400 179.
TRANSATLANTIC STEAM SHIP COMPANY
a glass rummer, with etched decoration of the Great (sic) Liverpool under steam and sail, a view of the Perch Rock Fort and lighthouse (at Liverpool), and the initials ISB dated 1839 -- 6¼in. (15.5cm.) high
See notes to previous lot for details. £120-150
180. IRISH SEA PACKET STEAMER HER MAJESTY, 1843
an Imari pattern-decorated soup plate, the bowl transfer-printed with a portside view of the paddle-steamer Her Majesty of Fleetwood, and the reverse with impressed mark BB. New Stone -- 10½in. (26.5cm.) diameter, slight crazing but overall good condition and a rare survival from an early wrecked paddler
Ex. Richardson Collection, Bonham’s, 9th February 2000, lot 22.
Built by Tod & McGregor on the Clyde in 1843, the iron paddler Her Majesty was ordered for the Fleetwood to Ardrossan (Ayrshire) route but soon transferred onto the Fleetwood to Belfast run when it was inaugurated in 1844. Operated by the North Lancashire Steam Navigation Company but registered in the name of Frederick Kemp of Fleetwood, she was 499 tons gross and measured 160 feet in length with a 25 foot beam. Subsequently the first steamer to operate on the new Fleetwood to Londonderry route when it opened in January 1849, she was wrecked on Rathlin Island during the night of 22nd March,1849 whilst on passage back to Fleetwood. No lives were lost and her cargo was saved although the vessel herself was a total loss.
£200-400 181.
AN HISTORICALLY INTERESTING SILVERED TWO-HANDLED CUP, PRESENTED TO DR. TIGHE BY THE NEW ZEALAND-BOUND EMIGRANTS OF THE SHIP RANGITIKI, 1876
unmarked, the bowl with wrigglework designs, inscribed to front To Dr. Tighe / FROM THE EMIGRANTS / Ship ‘Rangitiki’ / TO / N.Z. 1876, with stylised dragon handles -- 9¾in. (25cm.) high; 13.39 troy oz.
The emigrant ship Rangitiki, said to be one of the fastest sailing ships of her day, had a gross weight of 1,182 tons, a length of 210 feet, and a beam of 35 feet, with accommodations for 300 emigrants and twenty first class passenger cabins. In 1873 she was bought by New Zealand Shipping Co. and named Rangitiki in 1874 and several subsequent times. In that same year, she completed the fastest round voyage between the U.K. and New Zealand in only six months and twenty-seven days. This cup was presented to Dr. Tighe on 22nd December, 1876 for his attentions to the emigrants during the voyage that left London on 9th September when, four days after leaving London, measles broke out affecting over 30 of the passengers. The Christchurch South Island News for 12th December 1876 reported that he was held in high regard among the passengers, having been said to tend to them at all hours of the night and day, and was also presented with an ivory tablet from the ‘single girls’ and a silver inkstand from the ‘single men’.
£300-500
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