The vessel depict on this label of Paraguay, for the 800 year Commemoration of Hamburg is most probably the BAVARIA of the Hamburg America Line, but she has five sisters so it can be also a other ship of that class, can not find the painting on line after which this design is made.
Built as an iron hulled passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 49 by Caird & Co, Greenock, Scotland for Hamburg Brazilianische Packetschiffahrt Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany.
30 October 1856 launched as the PETROPOLIS, five sisters.
Tonnage 2,405 grt, 1,346 net, dim.85.34 x 11.76 x 7.62m.
Powered by 2-cyl geared oscillating overhead beam steam engines, 250 hp, single screw, speed 10 knots.
Accommodation for 54 first class, 146 second and 310 third class passengers.
Crew 80.
30 January 1857 trials.
20 February 1857 left for her maiden voyage from Hamburg and via Southampton-Lisbon-Pernambuco-Bahia to Rio de Janeiro.
After 4 round voyages in this service she was sold to Hamburg America Line on 21 October 1858.
Renamed in BAVARIA (I).
01 November 1858 sailed for her first voyage for her new owners from Hamburg via Southampton to New York.
October 1867 inaugurated Hamburg America Line service to New Orleans.
1871Got new compound engines, manufactured by C.A. Day, Southampton, service speed increased to 12 knots.
25 October 1873 last voyage from Hamburg to New York.
Then used in the West Indies service from the Hamburg America Line.
01 November 1876 sold to Dominion Line, Liverpool., as replacement for the VICKSBURG, she was not renamed.
07 December 1876 first voyage for the new owners in the service from Liverpool to New Orleans.
02 February 1877 on her first homebound voyage from New Orleans to Liverpool got on fire and was destroyed, with now loss of life.
There are two other labels with ships on, one it looks a cruise ship with on deck part of Hamburg and one which depict a view of the Hamburg port in olden days with sailing ships.
Paraguay 1989 sg?, scottC786.
Source: North Atlantic Seaways and South Atlantic Seaways by N.R.P. Bonsor. Merchant Fleets in profile Volume 4 by Duncan Haws.