"By 1940 it looked as if building of steamboats had ended in this country. For 17 years, during which we built history's greatest fleet of ocean-going steamships for war use, this was a fact. Then in 1957 came the Nantucket, a true steamboat. Her white superstructure is high and significantly wider than her hull. She carries passengers and cars to the Massachusetts islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Her twin screws are turned by steam, not by the diesel power now given most vessels of her size. But she is not old-fashioned. Because much freight now moves by truck and many travelers wish to take their cars with them, she has a high-clearance vehicle deck, with loading doors at bow and stern. Her engines are of the latest uniflow type, and she blows a steam horn, not a whistle. But she is a real steamboat, perhaps the last in North America's steamboat-studded history."

R. LOREN GRAHAM

Card #40. Description on back. Measures approximately 5-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches.

Minor corner wear. Vertical crease at center.