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English: "Launching the Life-Boat" by Granville Perkin, an 18-foot wide photo-print of a 19th century wood engraving, was donated anonymously to the New London Maritime Society c.2012. Too big to be hung in the Society's museum at the New London Custom House, it was lent to Union Station to be displayed there. It was originally published as "Among the Wrecker of the New Jersey Coast" in Harper's Illustrated in 1868, and subsequently apeared in the April 1869 issue of Our Young Folks children's magazine, illustrating the article "Wrecks and Wreckers". The lighthouse shown is the Barnegat Light.

Granville Perkins (1830-1895) was a set designer who later became know for tropical landscapes, book illustrations, and watercolors. (Description source: Custom House Maritimes, Summer 2014)

New London Union Station is a historic rail station located at 35 Water Street in New London, Connecticut. Built in 1887 and designed by H. H. Richardson in the Richardsonian Romanesque style – and the last railroad station Richardson would design – Union Station serves Amtrak customers on the Northeast Corridor and is the eastern terminus for CTrail Shore Line East service. Local and intercity buses stop at the station, and ferry service to Long Island and Fisher's Island in New York as well as Block Island in Rhode Island is nearby. The current building is the sixth, and is one of the oldest station still in use on the Northeast Corridor. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.