Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 145

Name:

 CITY OF BROOKLYN

Year:

 1868

Description:

 Passenger Ship

Webpage:

 Webpage

Picture:

 

Tonnage:

 2,971

Length:

 354.4

Width:

 42.5

H.P.:

 450 : 13 knots

Type:

 Iron, two horizontal trunk engines, single screw, three masts, one funnel¹

Customer:

 Inman

Fate:

 Wrecked on Anticosti Island, 8th Nov.1885 with no loss of life.

Points of Note:

 

Date of Launch:

 December 1868

Notes:

          Renamed Brooklyn when sold to the Fabre Line in 1874¹. Sold to the Dominion Line in 1879 and lengthened to 400' and the weight increased to 4,215 tons and compound engines added.

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

[Trans-Atlantic Passenger Ships, Eugene W.Smith]

[British Passenger Lines of the Five Oceans, Commander C.R. Vernon Gibbs]