Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 61

Name:

 CITY OF MANCHESTER

Year:

 1851

Description:

 Passenger Ship

Webpage:

 Webpage

Picture:

 Yes

Tonnage:

 1652 later 2109

Length:

 261 later 265.3

Width:

 26.2 later 37.5

H.P.:

 400 : 9 knots

Type:

 Iron, single screw, three masts one funnel

Customer:

 Inman

Fate:

 1871 operated as a sailing ship until 1876, when she was wrecked.

Points of Note:

 In 1855 was chartered by the French and used as a Crimean War transport.

Date of Launch:

 4th June 1851

Notes:

          Master; Capt. Campbell.

 

          Commenced her maiden voyage Liverpool-Philadelphia in 26th July 1851. Sold in 1871 and converted to sail.

[Passenger Ships of the World, Eugene W.Smith]

          The City of Manchester was a much bigger ship than the City of Glasgow, but her engines were practically the same as this ship. This meant that the ship boasted improved accommodation, but a poorer performance.

          In 1854 William Inman was able to do without his partners, the Quaker Richardson Brothers, and assume sole management over the "Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Steamship Company". He soon chartered the City of Manchester, City of Baltimore, and later the City of Washington to the French Government on excellent terms.

[A Century of Atlantic Travel, FG Bowen]

 

            The story of the Emigration of William and Mary Craven.