Bristol City Council : Museum Collections

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This engraving from the Illustrated London News shows the 'Launch of the Demerara Royal Mail Steam-ship, at Bristol' by S. C. Smyth, 1851.

Bristol Central Reference Library, digital image, Demerara launch