A starboard-broadside view of the paddle steamship 'Arabia' heading to New York with mail on the River Mersey. As a Cunard liner, she regularly made passages from Liverpool to New York; her fastest journey was 9 days and 17 hours in August 1853. She was the last wooden Cunard ship to be built. A smaller steamship navigates perpendicular to the 'Persia' to the left of her stern; the passengers on the two ships greet one another.
