Free postage included: Originally supplied: With complements of Thos. & John BROCKLEBANK Ltd, Cunard Building, Liverpool 3'

A pair of Royal Worcester porcelain coasters: Discover the unique historical significance of the Vintage Ship HMS Princess Charlotte (1815) & SV Aracan (1854) Pin Dishes, by T & J BROCKLEBANK, and crafted by Royal Worcester in the 1960s - 80s.

Dishes dimensions x 2:  9cm diameter x 1.5cm.  

Aracan (3-masted bark) was carrying a general cargo to Hong Kong. Syria was towing the broken-down steamer American that the Aracan ran into. Aracan sank in 40 minutes. The courts decided that Syria and America would count as one vessel. Siert Ingo 28/03/2012 The ARACAN collided with the SS AMERICAN, sixteen miles off Portland Bill. The Union Co. steamship SS SYRIA took the crew off, which took them (with the AMERICAN in tow) to Southampton. 

HMS Princess Charlotte, later HMS Burlington, was a 42-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built in 1814 during the War of 1812 at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Ontario. She had originally been built as Vittoria but was renamed before being launched. She was constructed to a design by George Record, and was built under a private contract by Master shipwright John Goudie. She served on Lake Ontario, having been commissioned at Oswego on 5 May 1814 under Captain William Mulcaster.

The ship took part in the British attack on Fort Oswego and the blockade of Sackett's Harbor on Lake Ontario in 1814. In November of that year, she came under the command of Captain Edward Collier and was renamed HMS Burlington on December 9, 1814. Captain Nicholas Lockyer took command in June 1816. Burlington was offered for sale in January 1833, but there were no buyers, and she was later towed away and scuttled.

 “Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd”, a 19th and 20th-century shipping line that was acquired by the Anchor Line in 1912.