Advertisement card for 'Southampton, Cowes, and Portsmouth Steam Packets. The Earl of Malmesbury, J. H. Knight, Jun. Commander, [...] His Majesty's Post Office Packet Medina, J. H. Knight, Commander'.

Printed on both sides of a piece of card roughly 11 x 7.5 cm, good, with text and illustration clear and entire, on grubby and lightly stained paper. The same engraving of a steam packet at sea at head of both sides of each card. Attractively printed, and giving times and fares. 'CAPTAIN KNIGHT hopes, by assiduous attention, for the continuance of the Patronage which he has so long enjoyed; and the Public are respectfully informed, that all passengers by these Steam-Vessels will have the exclusive advantage of embarking and disembarking without the inconvenience of getting into Boats, and Free of any Charge, at the Wharf of the Fountain Inn at Cowes. | J. H. KNIGHT can be spoken with at any of the Inns, or at his own house, No. 9, Gloucester-square, Southampton, and at the King's Inn, Portsmouth.' In 1826 In 1826 the Medina and the Earl of Malmesbury are reported to have made an excursion to Wootton Bridge on the Isle of Wight to see the launching of Lord Yarborough’s 351 ton yacht Falcon from the shipyard of Daniel List. The Medina was lost on a reef at Turks' Islands in March 1842, her crew, passengers and mails being saved.