"Long Island Sound had three Connecticuts. The first, begun by Robert Fulton but finished after his death, was designed to cross the ocean, anticipating the Savannah's ocean voyage by three years. She never did. The second, a New York-Norwich liner of 1848, went south as a war transport and survived into the nineties. The third and handsomest, though not the most successful, was the flagship of the Providence & Stonington Steamship Co., depicted in this painting by Arthur C. Adams. By the time she was built for the New York-Providence run, big wooden boats were already outmoded. The iron Fall River Liners Pilgrim and Puritan entered service in 1882 and 1888. However, the Connecticut summed up the best traits of wooden hulled Sound sidewheelers: imposing paddleboxes, hog frames, twin stacks in line rather than abreast, and a huge layer-cake superstructure 87 feet wide, mounted on a hull only 48 feet in breadth. She was scrapped after barely 20 years' service."

MARINE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, INC.

Card #25. Description on back. Measures approximately 5-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches.

Gently bumped corners and only slight edge wear. Very shallow crease at lower left corner.