The British steamer Rex running out of Le Havre

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Marie-Edouard Adam of Le Havre (1847-1929)
The British steamer Rex running out of Le Havre
oil on canvas
24½ x 36 in. (62.3 x 91.4 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Rigged as a brigantine, the steel screw steamer Rex was built at Leith by Ramage & Ferguson in 1889. Ordered by the Realm Steamship Company (R. Conaway & Co., managers), she was registered in Liverpool at 1,750 tons gross and measured 265 feet in length with a 36½ foot beam. Within ten years however, her owners had gone out of business and Rex herself was sold to new owners (unknown) and presumably renamed.

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