Designer: | Dixon, Charles Edward (1872-1934) |
Country: | Other |
Decade: | 1920 |
Dimensions: | 90 x 59 cm (35.5 x 23.25 in.) |
Condition: | Very good | | B + |
Publisher: | the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand |
Category: |
Ocean Liner |
RMS Tahiti was originally built as the RMS Port Kingston in 1904 for Imperial Direct West India Mail Co. In 1911, she was purchased by the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, refitted at Bristol and renamed Tahiti. She was intended for the route Sydney to San Francisco via Wellington, Rarotonga and Tahiti; she made her first voyage on 11 December 1911.
Text on the poster:
Union-Australasian Line to New Zealand and Australia
via San Francisco - Tahiti (Society Is.) and Rarotonga (Cook Is.)
R.M.S. Tahiti
Sailings every 28 days from San Francisco by well equipped oil burning steamers. Through bookings from Great Britain by any Atlantic line and choice of USA rail routes.
The artist, Charles Edward Dixon, was a British maritime painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose work was highly successful and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy.
A Union-Australasian Line timetable from 1925 has the same rendering as this poster. The poster is restored for a missing lower right corner and mounted on linen.