The Convict Ship 'Success'
Albumen photograph cabinet card. C1890. 105mm by 165mm (card). Cabinet card size albumen photograph of the convict ship 'Success'. 'Wishing you a Merry Xmas' printed on right side of the card. 'Convict hulk 'Success'' inscribed in pencil on the reverse.
'Success' was an Australian prison ship, built in 1840 at Natmoo, Burma, for Cockerell & Co. of Calcutta. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, she was converted into a floating museum displaying relics of the convict era and purporting to represent the horrors of penal transportation in Great Britain and the United States of America. After extensive world tours she was destroyed in 1946 by fire while berthed in Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio.
Some light foxing. Item #5178
Price: $380.00