USS Arkansas - Tonawanda - Philadelphia Southern Mail Steamship Company - 1866

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The Philadelphia Southern Mail Steamship Company - 1866

Cross-referencing history, per an earlier blog entry of an illustration from 1866, the image of a steamer is a likely sister ship or the original image of the Tonawanda, aka USS Arkansas in the Civil War blockading southern shipping. This pointed out to me by a Maritime Archaeologist Matthew Lawrence.  



USS Arkansas (1863), a screw steamer originally names the Tonawanda that served in the American Civil War. After the war she was named Tonawanda and lost off Key Largo in 1866. ~~ Wikipedia

Video and Illustration references :
Matthew Lawrence

Maritime Archaeologist

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

95230 Overseas Hwy
Key Largo, FL 33037
Office: 305-434-9383

Mobile: 617-827-4368
Matthew.Lawrence@noaa.gov

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