File:Edward Duncan - The Explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri.jpg

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Description

"The Explosion of the United States Steam Frigate Missouri, at Gibralter [sic], Aug. 26th, 1843" - Chromolithograph showing the crew of H.M.S. Malabar (foreground, left) watching as USS Missouri explodes and burns in the distance from accidental fire, after completing first trans-Atlantic voyage of a U.S. steam powered ship the day prior.

Other text on image:

Drawn by E. Duncan, from a sketch made on the spot by Lieut. G.P. Mands, T.G. Dutton lith.; MALABAR; Day & Haghe Lith^rs to the Queen.

To Captⁿ Sir George Sartorius and the Officers of the H.M.S. Malabar--this print is respectfully dedicated by their obedient servant, Edmund Fry

London, Ackermann & C^o Strand, Foster. Fenchurch Street _ Plymouth Edmund Fry

The original drawing by Duncan can be found here:

Date

between 1843 and 1850

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID pga.05978.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Author

Lithograph (For Day & Haghe):

Thomas Goldsworthy Dutton (–1891)
Alternative names	T. G. Dutton; Thomas G. Dutton; Thomas Goldsworth Dutton
Description	British printmaker, lithographer and painter
Date of birth/death	between 1819 and 1820 date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1819-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1820-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	1891
Work period	1838 –1879
Work location	London
Authority file	: Q25301435 VIAF: 95818911 ULAN: 500022349 LCCN: nb2009021143 NLA: 36044298 KulturNav: 07ed2ac2-79cb-4bbc-963f-5432a0fa4671 WorldCat

Artist:



Alternative names	Duncan
Description	British painter and engraver
Date of birth/death	20 October 1803 / 21 October 1803	11 April 1882
Location of birth/death	London	London
Work location	London (1818–1882)
Authority file	: Q5342665 VIAF: 92461797 ISNI: 0000000116863693 ULAN: 500023718 LCCN: nr93019910 Oxford Dict.: 8215 WorldCat

After a sketch by

George Pechell Mends (1811–1871)
Alternative names	Captain George Pechell Mends
Description	British marine painter
Date of birth/death	1811	15 September 1871
Work period	circa 1850 - 1865
Authority file	: Q87267434 VIAF: 95876217 ULAN: 500031583

Restored by:

Adam Cuerden
Description	British Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth	8 June 1979
Location of birth	United States of America

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The author died in 1891, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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	15:47, 18 August 2022	6,979 × 5,700 (45.29 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Cropped 14 % horizontally, 4 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode. Eyeball crop
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	23:10, 13 July 2022	7,144 × 5,824 (42.46 MB)	Adam Cuerden	c:User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js:
	13:19, 27 February 2010	3,003 × 2,557 (840 KB)	Ecemaml	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Crew of H.M.S. Malabar (foreground, left) watch as USS Missouri explodes and burns in the distance from accidental fire after completing first trans-Atlantic voyage of a U.S. steam powered ship the day prior.}} \|Source={{

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- マラバー (戦列艦)
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- Q5633270

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Image title	http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.05978
Camera manufacturer	Metis Systems srl
Camera model	METIS DRS 2000 DCS - Firmware 0002.50 - CCD 14400
Author	Library of Congress; P&P
User comments	http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.05978
JPEG file comment	http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.05978
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	157.48 dpc
Vertical resolution	157.48 dpc
Software used	GIMP 2.10.32
File change date and time	19:50, 18 August 2022
Color space	sRGB
Unique ID of original document	xmp.did:0E0728169F08E511A774F1CC94DF1B21
Date and time of digitizing	12:53, 1 June 2015

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