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A black & white print, from a disbound book Pictorial Ireland c1900 with another print on the reverse.

Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 11.5" x 9" or 29.5cm x 23cm, including text and border.

Actual picture size approx 9" x 6.5" or 22.5cm x 16.7cm

This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.

All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.

While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.

Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)

THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMER "COLUMBA."

One of the features of the Clyde is the vast system of pleasure traffic by steamers, starting from Glasgow, Craigendoran, Greenock, or Gourock, which call from pier to pier along the popular routes, on a plan lately copied to some extent in the Bristol Channel, on the Hampshire coast, and between the Essex coast and the Thames. Foremost amongst these vessels are Mr. Macbrayne's Columba and lone, which ply to Ardrishaig for Oban. The Iona, first built, accommodates 1,400 passengers, but she in turn has been surpassed by the Columba. This celebrated vessel is 316 feet in length, 50 feet across her paddle-boxes, and only 9 feet in draught. Her engines of 2,200 horse-power develop a speed of 22 miles per hour. She accommodates by certificate 2,000 passengers, and the dining saloon dines ioo persons at one time. She is built entirely of steel.