Keywords: Wreck of the U.S.M. steam ship "Arctic" (one-third-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 one-third original size for upload due to limitations on image size for thumbnails LOC-image pga 00977 James E Buttersworth artist 1817-1894 1854 PD-old-100 Arctic ship 1850 James E Buttersworth |