3-053-561 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Our special artist's voyage to the Gold Coast - the "Tender Parting" opposite New Brighton, 1873. 'Our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior, who has been sent by the proprietors of this Journal to the Gold Coast of West Africa, for the purpose of making sketches to illustrate the campaign under Sir Garnet Wolseley against the Ashantees...sailed from Liverpool on the 6th, in the screw steam-ship Volta...Our Correspondent praises in high terms the accommodation on board the Volta, the quality of the provisions, and the obliging behaviour of all the officers of that ship, from the captain downwards...The weather, from Liverpool to Madeira, had not been agreeable; the wind blowing very heavily, the ship rolled a good deal; there was much sickness, and nearly all the live stock was lost. The first of Mr. Prior's sketches represents the Knight Templar (steam-tender) leaving the Volta off New Brighton in the Mersey. "As the two steamers parted company the friends of the officers and others on board the tender rushed on the bridge and, with hearty cheers, bade us farewell and a safe and pleasant voyage. This was a tender parting".' From "Illustrated London News", 1873.