C. Parsons after Samuel Walters

ROYAL MAIL STEAM SHIP SCOTIA 4050 TONS, 1000 HORSE POWER. Captain C. H. E. Judkins Off Cape Race throwing overboard the New York Associated Press Parcel

29 x 20.5 inches

A large hand coloured lithograph by Charles Parsons after Samuel Walters; published in New York by Currier and Ives in 1867.

The Scotia was the finest and the last paddle steamer to be built for trans-Atlantic service. It was built in the shipyards of Glasgow and painted when it was in dock at Liverpool. It made regular journeys across the Atlantic between Liverpool and New York. In this image the ship is pictured off the coast of Newfoundland at Cape Race.