3-052-699 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Union Company's new steam-ship Trojan, for the Cape Mail Line, 1880. 'The new Cape mail-steamer Trojan has been built by Messrs. James and George Thomson, of Glasgow, for the Union Steam-Ship Company...The Trojan is the largest vessel which has yet been placed on the Cape of Good Hope service...Some interest may attach to the first voyage of the Trojan, as it is anticipated she will bring home from Natal the Empress Eugénie and her suite after their visit to the scene of the death of the Prince Imperial, who himself was conveyed in one of the Union Steam-Ship Company's steamers to Natal when he started on his fatal expedition...The comfort of the ladies has been specially cared for. In addition to the retiring-room aft of the ship, containing bathrooms and lavatories, there is a spacious saloon allotted to ladies on deck, the approach to which is by the gallery surrounding the open dome-light of the saloon. Its position, completely sheltered by the houses and deck amidships, will afford the ladies an agreeable airy lounge, with an uninterrupted view of the sea on either hand'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.