2-798-828 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Marmora, screw steamer at Liverpool, 1845. 'The Marmora is a neat, light bark, with exceedingly lofty masts. She is fitted with Ericsson's propellers, on nearly the same principle as the screws of the Great Britain, and carries a low-pressure engine, a new invention, by which the consumption of coal is comparatively small...Her size is registered at 400 tons; she is 24 1/4 feet beam, 10 1/2 feet hold, and 145 feet keel: engine 155 horse-power. She presents a very neat appearance; her rigging is that of a bark, lofty, and exceedingly well trimmed, and capable of carrying her ten knots with a fair wind...She is destined for Constantinople, to be placed under the direction of the Turkish Government, to ply between the above capital and Paris'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.