Keywords: Wreck of the U.S.M. steam ship "Arctic" (half-size).png en Original caption Wreck of the U S M Steam Ship 'Arctic' Off Cape Race Wednesday September 27th 1854 On her homeward voyage from Liverpool during a dense fog she came in collision with the French iron propeller 'VESTA ' and was so badly injured that in about 5 hours she sunk stern foremost by which terrible calamity nearly 300 persons are supposed to have perished http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/pga 00977 Wreck of the U S M steam ship Arctic from an N Currier lithograph held at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C Original TIFF scan converted to PNG at 50 original size for upload due to upload file size limitations LOC-image pga 00977 James E Butterworth artist 1854 PD-Art Arctic ship 1850 |