1879 Map - London Steamboat Company (with Timetable)
London Steamboat Company Limited - Map - Showing The Various Routes, Piers etc at which the Company’s Steamboats call.
Printed by Letts Son & Co Ltd for the London Steamboat Company Limited. Map loose within timetable booklet titled “Official Time Tables of the London Steamboat Company and Guide to the River Thames”. Dated June 1879. Booklet measures 14cm x 21.5cm (23 pages). Map: two-colour lithograph on paper. Folded as issued. Blank verso. Measures 53cm x 36cm. Condition is excellent.
This rare and important map is in outstanding condition. Given the relatively short operational life of the LSC (8 years), examples of their publications are particularly rare and the map itself is the only example we can find any public record of. The illustrated cover features a Steamboat in the foreground with views of St Pauls and the Palace of Westminster along with vignettes of scenes further down river. The map shows the routes of the LSC in red with vignettes of Walton-on The-Naze, Clacton-on-Sea, Sheerness and Rosherville. The map indicates that the LSC also operated three routes to France from Ramsgate.
This timetable and map were published just months after the LSC suffered one of worst waterway disasters in British history, with the sinking of the SS Princess Alice in September 1878.
The London Steamboat Company was formed in 1876 with the amalgamation of the Woolwich Steam Packet Company and a number of smaller concerns. On 3rd September 1878, the SS Princess Alice - a steamboat operated by the London Steamboat Company - was struck by another vessel, sinking it immediately with the loss of 700 lives. This remains the greatest loss of life of any British inland waterway shipping accident. Following this disaster, the company struggled financially and was put up for sale at the end of 1884, becoming the River Thames Steamboat Company, which operated for three years.
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London Steamboat Company Limited - Map - Showing The Various Routes, Piers etc at which the Company’s Steamboats call.
Printed by Letts Son & Co Ltd for the London Steamboat Company Limited. Map loose within timetable booklet titled “Official Time Tables of the London Steamboat Company and Guide to the River Thames”. Dated June 1879. Booklet measures 14cm x 21.5cm (23 pages). Map: two-colour lithograph on paper. Folded as issued. Blank verso. Measures 53cm x 36cm. Condition is excellent.
This rare and important map is in outstanding condition. Given the relatively short operational life of the LSC (8 years), examples of their publications are particularly rare and the map itself is the only example we can find any public record of. The illustrated cover features a Steamboat in the foreground with views of St Pauls and the Palace of Westminster along with vignettes of scenes further down river. The map shows the routes of the LSC in red with vignettes of Walton-on The-Naze, Clacton-on-Sea, Sheerness and Rosherville. The map indicates that the LSC also operated three routes to France from Ramsgate.
This timetable and map were published just months after the LSC suffered one of worst waterway disasters in British history, with the sinking of the SS Princess Alice in September 1878.
The London Steamboat Company was formed in 1876 with the amalgamation of the Woolwich Steam Packet Company and a number of smaller concerns. On 3rd September 1878, the SS Princess Alice - a steamboat operated by the London Steamboat Company - was struck by another vessel, sinking it immediately with the loss of 700 lives. This remains the greatest loss of life of any British inland waterway shipping accident. Following this disaster, the company struggled financially and was put up for sale at the end of 1884, becoming the River Thames Steamboat Company, which operated for three years.
Free UK Delivery. For Non-UK Delivery please request quotation.
London Steamboat Company Limited - Map - Showing The Various Routes, Piers etc at which the Company’s Steamboats call.
Printed by Letts Son & Co Ltd for the London Steamboat Company Limited. Map loose within timetable booklet titled “Official Time Tables of the London Steamboat Company and Guide to the River Thames”. Dated June 1879. Booklet measures 14cm x 21.5cm (23 pages). Map: two-colour lithograph on paper. Folded as issued. Blank verso. Measures 53cm x 36cm. Condition is excellent.
This rare and important map is in outstanding condition. Given the relatively short operational life of the LSC (8 years), examples of their publications are particularly rare and the map itself is the only example we can find any public record of. The illustrated cover features a Steamboat in the foreground with views of St Pauls and the Palace of Westminster along with vignettes of scenes further down river. The map shows the routes of the LSC in red with vignettes of Walton-on The-Naze, Clacton-on-Sea, Sheerness and Rosherville. The map indicates that the LSC also operated three routes to France from Ramsgate.
This timetable and map were published just months after the LSC suffered one of worst waterway disasters in British history, with the sinking of the SS Princess Alice in September 1878.
The London Steamboat Company was formed in 1876 with the amalgamation of the Woolwich Steam Packet Company and a number of smaller concerns. On 3rd September 1878, the SS Princess Alice - a steamboat operated by the London Steamboat Company - was struck by another vessel, sinking it immediately with the loss of 700 lives. This remains the greatest loss of life of any British inland waterway shipping accident. Following this disaster, the company struggled financially and was put up for sale at the end of 1884, becoming the River Thames Steamboat Company, which operated for three years.
Free UK Delivery. For Non-UK Delivery please request quotation.
