Tod & Macgregor Shiplist
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Yard No.: |
148 |
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Name: |
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Year: |
1871 |
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Description: |
Passenger Ship |
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Tonnage: |
3,950 |
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Length: |
419.1 |
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Width: |
44 |
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H.P.: |
600 : Two cylinder horizontal trunk engine |
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Type: |
Iron, single screw, three masts, one funnel. Was later given two stacks.¹ |
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Fate: |
Sunk by fire, in the Atlantic, in 10th August 1887, no loss of life, the passengers and crew being rescued by the York City.¹ |
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Date of Launch: |
1871 |
Notes:
The Inman Line responded to the White Star's fast ships of 1871 with the City of Montreal, a dividend earner rather than a record breaker, which had a gross tonnage of 4,451 and horizontal compound engines of 600 nominal horsepower. These engines were very extravagant and, when she was only six years old in 1877, they were changed for ordinary inverted compound engines. These got results quite as satisfactory with 100 less horsepower. She was not fast enough to compete with the faster ships that appeared soon after she was built, Inman was forced to build faster ships and in 1873 constructed the City of Richmond and the City of Chester, From a profit earning point of view she was a great success for the company until she was burnt out in the Atlantic in 1887.
[A Century of Atlantic Travel, FG Bowen]
She was carrying a cargo of 8,000 bales of raw American cotton, and was the 73rd ship with such cargo to catch fire in only 5 months.
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¹ [Trans-Atlantic Passenger Ships, Eugene W.Smith] [Passenger Ships of the World, Eugene W.Smith]