RANGITATA at sea Post-War Emigration to Australia A Royal launch is off

A Royal launch is off her bow followed by a Royal Navy vessel

SUTLEJ (1882) carried HRH the Duke and Duchess of Connaught from Bombay to Marseilles in 1882

she was the largest British motor vessel to date

SUN PRINCESS (1972) was built by Cantieri del Tirreno e Riuniti in Riva Trigoso

The painting depicts what was most probably a fictitious meeting between the sailing warship HMS QUEEN and the 206-ton paddle-steamer WILLIAM FAWCETT which made the first Peninsular Steam sailing to Spain and Portugal in 1835

RANGITATA at sea Post-War Emigration to Australia A Royal launch is offRANGITATA (1929) was built by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank.