Packet ship AMERICA

watercolor

Watercolor of ship AMERICA, port broadside view, starboard tack. Fully-rigged, painted gunports, men working on deck; walled fortress and lighthouse left background; 5 men in boat rowing out from left toward ship; name AMERICA on quarterboard; British flag aft, American flag on foremast, Black Star house flag on mainmast, unidentified flag from mizzenmast; signal flags aft spelling "C J- R" "American Lloyd's Register" 1864, p.7: America, (Capt.) Mortimer...1137 tons, built at Portsmouth, N.H. 1846 by G. Raynes. Belongs to port of Liverpool; owned by Grimshaw and Co., used as Liverpool packet."