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SS City of Glasgow of 1850 was a single-screw iron hulled passenger steamship of the Inman Line. Based on ideas pioneered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's SS Great Britain of 1845, City of Glasgow established that Atlantic steamships could be operated profitably without government subsidy.
SS City of Glasgow was a British passenger ship of 6,545 gross register tons (GRT) in operation between 1906 and 1918. She was torpedoed and sunk by SM UB-118 21 nautical miles (39 km) east of the Tuskar Rock in the Irish Sea on 1 September 1918 with the loss of 12 of her crew, while she was travelling from Liverpool, United Kingdom to Montreal, Canada in ballast.
SS City of Glasgow: 1850 Vanished and presumed lost in 1854 SS City of London: 1863 Vanished and presumed lost in 1881 SS City of Manchester: 1851 Wrecked in 1876 SS City of Nagpur: 1922 Torpedoed and sunk on April 29, 1941 SS City of New York: 1888 Scrapped in 1923 – Genoa, Italy: SS City of Paris: 1920 Scrapped in 1956 SS City of Peking: 1874
SS City of Glasgow (1906) SS City of Manchester (1851) MV Clyde; SS Copenhagen (1907) HMS Coreopsis (K32) SS Cork (1899) County of Peebles (ship) Cromdale (clipper) D.
Inman Line house flag. City of Glasgow of 1850 established that steamships could operate on the Atlantic without subsidies.. The Inman Line was one of the three largest 19th-century British passenger shipping companies on the North Atlantic, along with the White Star Line and Cunard Line.
15 April – iron paddle steamer SS City of Glasgow, launched on 28 February by Tod & Macgregor of Partick, makes her maiden voyage as the first steamer on the Glasgow–New York route. 18 June – paddle steamer Orion sinks off Portpatrick [1] through the negligence of her master with the loss of 50 lives.
SS: City of Boston: 1870: somewhere between New York City and Liverpool [85] SS: City of Glasgow: 1854: somewhere between Liverpool and Philadelphia [85] City of Limerick: 1882: somewhere between New York City and London [85] City of London: 1881: somewhere between London and New York City [85] Colombo: 1876: somewhere between Hull and New York ...
City of Glasgow of 1850 established that steamships could operate on the Atlantic without subsidies. John also hired a young business partner, William Inman , to operate the linen shipping business. In 1850, Inman persuaded John and his brothers to form the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Company and buy an advanced new ship, the SS City ...