Published Resources Details Journal Article
- Title
- Steam Launches
- In
- Engineering
- Imprint
- vol. 15, 14 February 1873, p. 124
- Description
Accession No.2203
- Abstract
It was reported that in future steamers of the Royal Mail Steampacket Company would carry a steam launch instead of a second lifeboat and that the first vessel to do so was the Targus, which left Southampton for the West Indies on the 3rd of February 1873.