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RMS City of Chester was a British passenger steamship that sailed on the transatlantic route from 1873 to 1898. The ship was built by Caird & Company of Greenock for the Inman Line . At 4,566 tons she became the largest passenger ship afloat when launched on 29 March 1873 – a title she held until the 5,000-ton Britannic was launched in ...
City of Chester was built in 1875 by John Roach & Sons in Chester, Pennsylvania. The ship was 1,106.21 GRT, 785.33 NRT, 202 feet (62 m) long, 33.2 feet (10.1 m) beam, 15.9 feet (4.8 m) depth of hold, with two boilers, a compound steam engine rated at 600 indicated horsepower. The ship was registered at Portland, Oregon with U.S. Official Number ...
Chester waterfront, ca. 1875. With the purchase of the Reaney property, Roach found himself in possession of a first-class shipyard. The spacious 23-acre (93,000 m 2) yard was ideally situated along a 1,200-foot (370 m) stretch of the Delaware where the river was over a mile wide and 18 feet (5.5 m) deep at the shore, allowing for launching of the largest vessels.
A total of 81 ships were built by the company—40 at the Bristol plant and 41 at Chester. All 40 ships from the Bristol yard were Type #1025 freighters. The Chester yard built 22 freighters, 10 oil tankers, four U.S. Navy minesweepers, four passenger-cargo liners, and one fireboat. [11] [12] More than half the ships were scrapped in the 1930s.
Ships built by the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company (88 P) Pages in category "Ships built in Chester, Pennsylvania" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
The Port of Chester is an American port on the west bank of the Delaware River in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Centered around Chester it ranges into Marcus Hook to the south and Eddystone to the north. It is part of the Delaware Valley port complex and lies between the Port of Wilmington and the Port of Philadelphia. Traditionally ...
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Chester City or City of Chester may refer to: Chester, a city in Cheshire, England; Chester City F.C., a former association football club in Chester; Chester (district), the former local government district surrounding Chester; City of Chester (UK Parliament constituency) The city of Chester, Pennsylvania