Tod & Macgregor Shiplist
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Yard No.: |
131 |
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Name: |
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Year: |
1864 |
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Description: |
Passenger Ship |
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Tonnage: |
2,278 |
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Length: |
312 |
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Width: |
39 |
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H.P.: |
360 : 12 knots |
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Type: |
Iron, single screw, three masts one funnel |
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Customer: |
Inman, single screw. two masts, one funnel. |
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Fate: |
Went missing on 25th Jan.1870 with the loss of 177 lives, whilst bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool. |
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Points of Note: |
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Date of Launch: |
15th November 1864 |
Notes:
100 cabin and 950 3rd class passengers speed of 12 knots. Her maiden voyage started on 8th February 1865 from Liverpool to Queenstown and New York.
[North Atlantic Seaway, N.R.P.Bonsor]
As usual the directors of the Inman Line had taken the long view of things, and were well in the van of the movement (back to migration, after the end of the American Civil War), the 1864 addition to their fleet being the City of Boston, a ship which followed their usual lines with slight improvements.
When she came out she attracted great attention and a very special point was made of her elaborate safety devices, the hull being divided into no less than 6 watertight compartments which most people considered to be quite unnecessary. This made certain parties write to the press to say that if other ship-owners were expected to follow this example they would all be ruined, as the ships could not possibly pay.
Yet in spite of the precautions taken the disappearance of the City of Boston in the beginning of 1870 is one of the unsolved mysteries of the Western Ocean.
[A Century of Atlantic Travel, FG Bowen]