2-791-381 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Landing the Abstract Express, at low water, 1844. Postal service between Britain and India - transferring the mail from a steamship to shore at Folkestone: '...if it be low-water, the weather rough, and the time night, a scene of exciting adventure ensues. A galley - a long clear-water boat, manned by some eight or more stout fellows, under Mr. Faulkner’s command - is launched from the beach, and sent off to the approaching vessel...a number of fishermen are usually posted with flambeaus to light them through the breakers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.