Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 132

Name:

 CITY OF NEW YORK - Norwegian

Year:

 1865

Description:

 Passenger Ship

Webpage:

 Webpage

Picture:

 

Tonnage:

 2,176, tonnage increased to 3,499.¹

Length:

 294.8, Lengthened to 375 feet.¹

Width:

 39.3

H.P.:

 350

Type:

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

Customer:

 Inman

Fate:

 She was scrapped in 1903 in Holland. (France ¹)

Points of Note:

 

Date of Launch:

 25th February 1865

Notes:

          Launched as the "Delaware" for Richardson, Spence and Co. Liverpool. 12 knots speed. She went to Inman Line the same year and was renamed. On 7th June 1865 she sailed from Liverpool on her made voyage to Queenstown and New York.

 

          In 1871 she was rebuilt to a length of 375 feet and 3,523 tons and on the 4th of April 1871 she resumed the Liverpool - Queenstown - New York service. In 1876 she was chartered to the American Line and completed three round voyages between Liverpool and Philadelphia, and in the following year was fitted with compound engines.

 

          In 1877 the City of Berlin lost her screw. Her consort, the City of New York, picked her up and towed her in, so that there was no salvage charges to pay.²

 

          She was then chartered to the Guion Line and on the 8th of June 1878 commenced the first of two round voyages between Liverpool - Queenstown and New York . On the 19th of December 1882 she commenced her last voyage for the Inman line which left Liverpool for New York and in 1883 she went to the Allan Line and was renamed Norwegian.

 

          Fitted with new compound engines she commenced Glasgow - Quebec - Montreal sailings on 12th June 1884. Glasgow - New York sailings on 20th November 1891 and Glasgow -Boston sailings on 4th July 1986. Her last Glasgow - New York voyage commenced on 28th April 1900 and her last Glasgow - Quebec - Montreal voyage on 23rd May 1903.

[North Atlantic Seaway, N.R.P.Bonsor]

 

          She ran aground in Little Cod Bay in 1903. Re-floated and broken up for scrap in the Netherlands.

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

¹ [Trans-Atlantic Passenger Ships, Eugene W.Smith]

² [A Century of Atlantic Travel, FG Bowen]