3-053-523 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The steam-ship Duke of Devonshire, built at Barrow-In-Furness, 1873. 'The new steam-ship...was the first large ocean steamer built in the very extensive and convenient yard of the Barrow Ship-building Company...The Duke of Devonshire is 3012 tons register, with engines of 400-horse power, nominal; she is classed A 1 twenty years in the Liverpool book, and forms one of Messrs. Carlyle Brothers and Co.'s "ducal line" of steamers from London to Calcutta direct, by the Suez Canal. She has been designed and built especially for this trade; and it is satisfactory to know that the pioneer boat of the line, the Duke of Argyll, now on her second voyage, has proved herself eminently satisfactory, and is one of the finest vessels in the Eastern trade. These steamers carry first-class passengers only. The cabins are placed amidships, where there is the least possible motion. They have spacious saloons, and large, well-ventilated berths, with baths, ice-house, and every convenience for a tropical voyage. They are dispatched from London by Messrs. M'Diarmid, Greenshields, and Co., of East India-avenue, Leadenhall-street, and from Calcutta by Messrs. Cox, Steel, and Co.'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.