SS City of Philadelphia

The RMS City of Philadelphia was an early transatlantic steamer (1854 ) of the British shipping company Inman Line.

The ship was launched in 1854 at the shipyard Todd & Mcgregor in Glasgow from the stack. It was designed as almost all the early ships of the Inman Line as a screw steamer with auxiliary rigging and measured at 2100 GRT. With its liner for Inman typical Clipper Steven, it is said to have seen the pure sailing ships of that time very similar.

The City of Philadelphia was named after its port of destination, they never should reach. On August 30, 1854 set sail from Liverpool, the ship ran aground on September 9, 1854 at Cape Race, at the southeast corner of Newfoundland and was lost. All people on board were rescued.

This was the second loss of a steamer within a year for the Inman Line, after the RMS City of Glasgow had disappeared in March 1854 already. This was a life-threatening crisis of the fledgling cruise line, the RMS with the City of Manchester, a single steamer was left in the meantime just yet.

• Steam engines ship
• Mail boat
• Passenger ship (United Kingdom)
• Shipwreck
• Traffic accident in 1854