Royal Mail Auxiliary Screw Steam Ship Clarendon 1000 Tons Register

Coloured lithograph depicting the Royal Mail Auxiliary Screw Steam Ship Clarendon. This ship was called Tejo from 1858-1869 under new owners Uniao Mercantil, and renamed Kent in 1869 under new owners Bailey & Leetham Ltd. Built by A. Leslie & Co in Gateshead-on-Tyne, she was one of an unsuccessful class of steam ship, that was often slower in practice than sailing vessels. (Mail and Passenger Steamships os the XIXth Century, p.73).