Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 104

Name:

 UNITED STATES

Year:

 1860

Description:

 Passenger Cargo Ship

Webpage:

 Webpage

Picture:

 

Tonnage:

 1202

Length:

 240

Width:

 32.2

H.P.:

 140 : 10 knots

Type:

 Iron, inverted engines, three masts one funnel.

Customer:

 Anchor Line

Fate:

 Wrecked, on 26th Apr.1861, on Bird Rock Gulf of St.Lawrence, one life lost.

Points of Note:

 Initial Registry: 12th Oct 1860

Date of Launch:

 18th September 1860

Notes:

[Anchor Line, R.S. McLellan]

 

          Probably laid down as United Provinces. [British Passenger Lines of the Five Oceans, Commander C.R. Vernon Gibbs]

 

          The sister ship of the United Kingdom.

[A Century of Atlantic Travel, FG Bowen]