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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 ...
The SS City of Chester was a steamship built in 1875 that sank after a collision in a dense fog with SS Oceanic at the Golden Gate in San Francisco Bay on August 22, 1888. She was owned by the Oregon Railroad Co. and leased by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company .
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Chester, after the city of Chester: HMS Chester (1691) was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1691. She was captured by the French in 1707 at the Battle at The Lizard. HMS Chester (1708) was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1708. She was on harbour service from 1743 and was broken up in 1750.
USS Chester (CL/CA-27), a Northampton-class cruiser, was the second ship of the United States Navy named after the city of Chester, Pennsylvania. Construction and commissioning [ edit ]
Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works and later Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation Chester shipyard, which had been in existence since 1859 and built close to 350 ships during the course of its history. It was sold to the Ford Motor Company and became a factory motor vehicles called Chester Assembly, which opened in 1927 and closed ...
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
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.
City of Chester: 1943 1944-1971 Built at Clydeholm Yard, Glasgow. [14] 11/1971 broken up at Whampoa, Hong Kong City of Colombo: 1956 to 1977 August 1977 to Ben Line Steamers Ltd. 9 March 1979 scrapped at Kaohsiung. [15] City of Corinth: 1898 1898–1912 Sold in 1912 to the Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique and renamed Sequana.