3-028-235 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The missing screw-steamer City of Boston, 1870. The ship disappeared after leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia, bound for Liverpool. 'The City of Boston, like the rest of the Inman fleet, is ship-rigged, a large spread of canvas being assigned to her, to act in aid of her propeller in securing steadiness and speed in sailing. The ribs, beams, and plating of this fine vessel are all exceedingly strong...Every department connected with the management and working of the ship, which is under the command of Captain Halcrow, is of the very best description. She was provisioned for fifty-eight days, and this apart from her cargo, which consisted in great measure of supplies of food. The propeller attached to the vessel is a new two-flange one, fitted during her last visit to New York, her original three-flange propeller having been broken in her last voyage from Liverpool. Some are of opinion that the strength of the new propeller would not be sufficient to enable her to make headway against the adverse winds which she must have encountered. The cabin passengers, fifty-five in number, include a few officers of the Royal Artillery and other regiments on their way home from Canada. The steerage passengers, fifty-two in number, are chiefly from New York'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.