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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.
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 ...
Sold in 1961 to Hanover Steamship Corp. and renamed Ocean Leader. Operated under the management of Jason Steamship Co. Management transferred to Norland Shipping & Trading Co. in 1963, then Ocean Freighting & Brokerage Corp. in 1965. [2] Scrapped at Onomichi in November 1969. [48]
The City of Topeka did a 22-day round trip between Seattle and Skagway, stopping in Port Townsend, Victoria, Mary Island, Wrangell, and Juneau. In 1906, Pacific Coast's SS Valencia was lost after running aground on the rocky shore of Vancouver Island. Over 100 people, including all women and children on board, lost their lives. [3]
The first two of three offshore supply vessels purchased by the Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority in 2022 are set to be online and ready for service in early summer ...
The firm's formal name for much of its history was the Liverpool, Philadelphia and New York Steamship Company, but it was also variously known as the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Company, as Inman Steamship Company, Limited, and, in the last few years before absorption, as the Inman and International Steamship Company.
SS Columbia (1880–1907) was a cargo and passenger steamship that was owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and later the San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company. Columbia was constructed in 1880 by the John Roach & Sons shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.
City of Cairo: 1915 1915–1942 Torpedoed and sunk by U-68 in 1942. City of Cambridge: 1870 1870–1881 Sold to Clan Line and renamed Clan MacLean: City of Cambridge: 1882 1882–1917 Torpedoed and sunk of Algieria by UC-67 in 1917 City of Cambridge: 1920 1920–1934 Wrecked in the China Sea City of Chester: 1943 1944-1971 Built at Clydeholm ...