Auxiliary Steam Packet Ship Massachusetts

Object summary

Title: Auxiliary Steam Packet Ship Massachusetts
Object ID: CC-E-0014
Date made: 1845
Place made: United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Lithographer: Lane & Scotts
Artist after: Lane, Fitz Hugh
Object type: Lithograph
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

Ship portrait of the auxiliary steam packet ship "Massachusetts" sailing towards the right. Another vessel is seen in the distance. The "Massachusetts" was commissioned by Captain R.B. Forbes and built by Samuel Hall in East Boston. She made two transatlantic passages from New York to Liverpool and then was purchased by the United States government during the Mexican War.

Inscriptions

Type: graphite
Location: recto
Text: Built by Samuel Hall, at East Boston Owned by R. B. Forbes and others made for voyages from Boston to Liverpool and was then sold to the United States Government

Type: stamp
Location: recto
Text: Clark Collection MIT