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New York American Line Ship, "Cornelius Grinnell", 1850. 'The Cornelius Grinnell arrived a few days since in the London Docks, where the vessel has excited much curiosity among persons interested in ship-building. [She is] owned by Messrs. Grinnell, Mintum, and Co., of Boston, has lately been fitted out at that port, and is, "by all odds," the strongest ship of her size ever built in that vicinity...She is 172 ft. on the keel, 180 ft. on deck, has 38 ft. extreme breadth of beam, and 23 ½ feet depth of hold, and will register about 1100 tons...She is appointed to sail for New York on Saturday next, September 7'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.