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Launched 1855: ss CITY OF BALTIMORE
ss CITY OF BALTIMORE
ss CITY OF BALTIMORE
ss CITY OF BALTIMORE
built by Tod & McGregor Glasgow,
Yard No 75

Last Name: BENICARLO (1882)
Previous Names: FIVALLER (1874)
Propulsion: steam - new engines and boilers in 1866
Launched: Saturday, 20/01/1855
Built: 1855
Ship Type: Passenger Vessel
Ship's Role: Transatlantic liner
Tonnage: 2368 grt
Length: 330.7 feet
Breadth: 39 feet
Owner History:
Inman Line Liverpool
Ship sold to Hall Line in 1874 then Spanish owners in 1882
Status: Scrapped - 1885

Remarks: Her first voyage took place on March 20th 1855 when she left Liverpool for Marseilles to act as transport in the Crimean War. She returned a year later and was given an overhaul. She made her first commercial sailing on 23rd April 1856 from Liverpool to Philadelphia.
Photo supplied by John Ward~McQuaid

Last updated: by Bruce Biddulph from the original records by Stuart Cameron

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