SS City of Glasgow

The RMS City of Glasgow was a ship that disappeared without a trace in 1854 in the North Atlantic.

Data to the ship

The City of Glasgow, a ship of the Inman Line, built by the Glasgow shipyard death and MacGregor, ran 1850 off the stack. Your propeller was powered by two steam engines. The top speed was 12 knots, so that they could compete with the older paddle steamers it is quite.

History

Their modern construction had already proved more than four years on the North Atlantic route, when she left Liverpool on March 1, 1854 Course on Philadelphia.

111 passengers, First Class and 293 passengers in third class and steerage were 77 crew members and the crew looked after, which was composed as follows:

  • Captain Kenneth Morrison
  • 4 officers
  • 1 doctor
  • 1 purser
  • 4 machinists
  • 6 firefighters
  • 5 heater
  • 10 stewards
  • 9 waiter
  • 1 stewardess
  • 4 quartermaster
  • 30 Able Seamen

Overall, therefore, there were 481 people on board the City of Glasgow.

On average, an Atlantic crossing under favorable conditions lasted at that time about 12 days. Whether a trip was run safely, it was learned at the earliest, when the ship into its port of departure - in the case of the City of Glasgow Liverpool - came back. It was not until 12 years later, in 1866, the first working telegraph cables were laid.

When it became known that the City of Glasgow was still not arrived on 9 April in Philadelphia, to fear was spreading. The owner told the Times then that they suspected the ship was in ice stuck off Newfoundland. This assumption was based on the testimony of passengers on the RMS City of Manchester, the sister ship of the City of Glasgow, who arrived in Liverpool on 17 of March. They had spotted unusually large icebergs that had advanced farther in that year than usual to the south.

From the City of Glasgow you never heard anything until today. It was not even looking for her. Only on 12 May 1854 quoted in the Glasgow Herald that they had " the worst " to go Lloyd's.

The terse comment has been connected a long list of ships, which were also disappeared over the North Atlantic.

  • Steam engines ship
  • Mail boat
  • Passenger ship (United Kingdom)
  • Ship disaster
  • Traffic accident in 1854
Knot (unit) April 9 SS City of Manchester (1851) May 12
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