Tod & Macgregor Shiplist
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Yard No.: |
122 |
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Name: |
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Year: |
1862 |
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Description: |
Passenger Ship |
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Webpage: |
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Picture: |
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Tonnage: |
2,577 |
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Length: |
324 |
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Width: |
40.5 |
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H.P.: |
450 : 11 knots |
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Type: |
Iron, twin horizontal trunk engines, single screw, three masts, one funnel ¹ |
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Customer: |
Inman |
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Fate: |
On 13th Nov.1881, out of London, went missing, loss of 41 lives. |
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Points of Note: |
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Date of Launch: |
1863 |
Notes:
Lengthened in 1868 to 374 feet. Tonnage raised to 2,765. Sold to Thistle Line in 1879.¹
¹[Passenger Ships of the World, Eugene W.Smith]
At a time when Cunard were having success with the Scotia and the China, Inman countered by constructing the City of Limerick, 2,536 tons, and the City of London, 2,765 tons. Both of them followed the company's established policy, but the City of London was by far the faster ship. Her machinery was unique, inverted diagonal four-cylinder simple engines designed by their own consulting engineer. When the ship was lengthened these complicated engines were taken out and replaced by an ordinary trunk engine.
[A Century of Atlantic Travel, FG Bowen]