2-791-385 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Launch of "The Braganza" steamer at Cowes, 1844. Relaunch of a ship after undergoing alterations at the Isle of Wight: 'one of the large steamers belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company...Our engraving shows "the Launch," sketched from the opposite shore of the Medina...introducing also the extensive premises of the Messrs. White, shipbuilders, West Cowes; and the adjacent slip, belonging to Mr. Hausen, on which the Kestrel is observed, previous to being launched. The Braganza has been lengthened 30 feet in midships...She is now a splendid model, commanded by Captain James Down, her former commander, and we understand is to be employed between London and Constantinople'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.