SS City of Manchester (1851)

The transatlantic steamship City of Manchester, built in 1852, was the second steamship the Inman Line of Liverpool.

Design and launch

It was established in 1852 designed in the shipyard Todd & McGregor in Glasgow as an iron screw steamer with auxiliary rigging and presented by the then most modern type of ship in the Atlantic dar. measured with 2125 GRT, he was with his expansive Clipper Steven as a " prototype " of the Inman Line flotilla - over 20 years Inman liners were built at the same yard and received the long clipper stem as an identifying mark.

Transatlantic service

The City of Manchester proved itself in the transatlantic service and put 1854/55, as both the RMS City of Glasgow and the RMS City of Philadelphia had been lost, momentarily the only overseas connection of the shipping company. Crew and passengers delivered in the spring of 1854 the only explanation for the mysterious disappearance of the City of Glasgow: The City of Manchester was before it, landed on March 17, 1845 in Liverpool, fall into unusually southern drift. In fact, the sister ship should be wrecked on an iceberg. In Inman services, the City of Manchester remained until its sale in 1871, when the Inman Line from its first, and now outdated, steamer generation separated.

The Atlantic crossing from 20 July to early August 1864 has gone down in criminal history: the Scotland Yard Inspector Dick Tanner and several witnesses of the first known Zugmordes were on board. The City of Manchester was more in New York than the sailing ship Victoria, where the murder suspects Franz Muller had fled from England. Muller was brought back to England, convicted of the crime and hanged.