Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Bourbon Frame mid-quarrel with Mexico

mid-quarrel with Mexico

and stars by which a soldier knew his corps and a corps knew its dead

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captured at the high tide of American maritime ambition when clipper hulls and whaling fleets carried the young republic's commerce to every meridian

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Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Bourbon Frame mid-quarrel with MexicoConflagration of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph of the January 1840 disaster, when fire swept the cotton laden decks and pitched 139 souls into the icy Sound. The scene renders the Lexington as a floating pyre against black water, lifeboats foundering in the middle distance a Currier print that made the catastrophe a household horror. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations