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The Royal Mail Clipper "Schomberg", 1856. Creator: Unknown.
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The Royal Mail Clipper "Schomberg", 1856. 'The Melbourne papers received by last Australian mail contain full particulars of the wreck of this splendid ship, of the Black Ball Royal Mail fine of clippers. The Schomberg sailed from Liverpool on the 6th Oct...a current running westward from three to four knots an hour - of which the captain was ignorant, and of which no mention is made in any existing chart...carried the ship into a sandspit about thirty-five miles west of Cape Otway, not laid down in any of the charts...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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HRM23A57_264
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15,5Mo (1,2Mo) / 21,9cm x 17,7cm / 2592 x 2094 (300dpi)