Skip to main content

Soldiers & sailors

Ship Niagara

(43) Ship Niagara

Images and transcriptions on this page, including medium image downloads, may be used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence unless otherwise stated. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence

Context
English ballads > Soldiers & sailors > Ship Niagara
(1) Ship Niagara
Permanent URLhttps://digital.nls.uk/74892937
DescriptionThe first ballad concerns the ship Niagara which took part in laying the first Transatlantic telegraph cable which crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Valentia Island, in western Ireland to Trinity Bay, in eastern Newfoundland.
ShelfmarkCrawford.EB.2079
Additional NLS resources:
Display more information More information
Form / genre: > >
> >
Dates / events: [Date printed]
[Date printed]
Places: (ocean) [Place in text]
(bay) [Place in text]
Subject / content:




Person / organisation: [Attributed name]
[Attributed name]
[Subject of text]

To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button.
Soldiers & sailors
English ballads
DescriptionCollection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Attribution and copyright:
  • Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Display more information More information
Form / genre: > >
Dates / events: [Date printed]

To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button.