A hand-coloured lithograph of the burning of the New York-built merchant steamship Golden Gate (1851), which caught fire off the coast of Mexico in 1862 on a voyage from San Francisco to Panama. She was carrying 242 passengers and a crew of 95, of whom only 100 apparently survived. Some of her substantial cargo of silver and gold was salvaged by divers. (H. Parker and F.C. Bowen, ‘Mail and Passenger Steamships of the XIXth Century’, London, 1928, p. 125). This dramatic lithograph shows garish yellow and orange flames sweeping across her wooden decks, causing panicked passengers and crew to jump overboard. Three packed lifeboats in the foreground pull away from the conflagration. Mounted with PAH0272.A hand-coloured lithograph of the burning of the New York-built merchant steamship Golden Gate (1851), which caught fire off the coast of Mexico in 1862 on a voyage from San Francisco to Panama. She was carrying 242 passengers and a crew of 95, of whom only 100 apparently survived. Some of her substantial cargo of silver and gold was salvaged by divers. (H. Parker and F.C. Bowen, ‘Mail and Passenger Steamships of the XIXth Century’, London, 1928, p. 125). In this dramatic lithograph, garish yellow and orange flames sweep across her wooden decks, causing panicked passengers and crew to jump overboard. Three packed lifeboats in the foreground pull away from the conflagration. Mounted with PAH0272.