‘The Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Britannia’

USA — ‘The Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Britannia’ – leaving East Boston for Liverpool, 3 February 1844. Via canal cut in the ice 7 miles long and 100 feet wide. Ship on which Charles Dickens went to America in 1842. (See ‘Amer-can Notes’). 289 x 453 mm. Courtesy of National Maritime Museum. — Image by © Derek Bayes/Lebrecht Music & Arts/Lebrecht Music & Arts/Corbis