Putting the Mail on Board the "Viceroy", 1850. Creator: Unknown. Putting the Mail on Board the "Viceroy", 1850. Creator: Unknown

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Putting the Mail on Board the "Viceroy", 1850. Creator: Unknown. Putting the Mail on Board the "Viceroy", 1850. Creator: Unknown

Putting the Mail on Board the "Viceroy", 1850. Mail sacks being loaded at Galway in Ireland, to be carried across the Atlantic Ocean. At twenty minutes past six the express [train] arrived from Dublin, with a considerable mail, and was handed over to the coast-guard boat...'. The sacks were...towed off towards the ship amidst the acclamations of thousands, and [were] then handed over to the captain, who instantly put his men to the capstan, and at a quarter to ten o'clock the Viceroy was fairly under weigh, amidst the prolonged cheering of the multitudes assembled upon every available point from which a glimpse of her could be caught...One thing is certain, and that is - Captain Ewing and his crew will leave nothing undone that rests within their power to render the voyage successful...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

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