SS City of Boston
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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]
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City of Boston, by Henry Spernon Tozer | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | City of Boston |
Operator | Inman Line |
Builder | Tod and Macgregor, Partick, Glasgow |
Yard number | 131 |
Launched | 15 November 1864 |
Fate | Lost 1870 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 2213 grt, 1650 nrt |
Length | 305 ft (93 m) |
Beam | 39 ft (12 m) |
Depth | 18.1 ft (5.5 m) |
Propulsion |
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Sail plan | Three-masted (ship rigged) |
Speed | 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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