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City of Boston, by Henry Spernon Tozer
History
United Kingdom
NameCity of Boston
Operator Inman Line
BuilderTod and Macgregor, Partick, Glasgow
Yard number131
Launched15 November 1864
FateLost 1870
General characteristics
Tonnage2213 grt, 1650 nrt
Length305 ft (93 m)
Beam39 ft (12 m)
Depth18.1 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 × steam engines (600 hp total)
  • single screw
Sail planThree-masted (ship rigged)
Speed12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Memorial to a family lost in the disaster in the porch of St Pancras Parish Church, London.

The SS City of Boston was a British iron-hulled single-screw passenger steamship of the Inman Line which disappeared in the North Atlantic Ocean en route from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Liverpool in January 1870.[1]

  1. ^ Gibbs, C. R. Vernon (1957). Passenger Liners of the Western Ocean: A Record of Atlantic Steam and Motor Passenger Vessels from 1838 to the Present Day. John De Graff. p. 117.

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