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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
City of Glasgow ' s moderate speed considerably reduced coal consumption. [1] The ship's first voyage for her new owners departed for Philadelphia on 17 December 1850. [3] The next year, she was joined by a larger edition, City of Manchester. [1] In 1852, the Inman broke new ground by transporting steerage passengers under steam.
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.
During the voyage to New York, she rescued some of the survivors from Athenia, [8] and was the first British ship to enter New York after war had been declared. [3] Cameronia returned to the United Kingdom as part of Convoy HXF 1, which departed Halifax , Nova Scotia on 19 September 1939 and arrived at Liverpool on 29 September.
The SS Letitia made her maiden voyage from Glasgow to Quebec and Montreal and kept sailing on that line until the outbreak of the First World War.She had place to accommodate 1.387 passengers and crew and she sometimes also carried mail as cargo.
SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. [1] During the Second World War , City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to transport 90 children from Britain to Canada .