RMS City of Manchester

The transatlantic steamship City of Manchester , built in 1852, was the second steamship the Inman Line from Liverpool .

Draft and launch

It was in 1852 at the shipyard Tod & MacGregor in Glasgow as an iron screw steamer with auxiliary rigging . Designed and thereby put the then modern type of ship in the Atlantic is measured with 2125 BRT, he was with his sweeping Klipper - Steven as a "prototype" of Inman Line Flotilla - Inman liners were built at the same shipyard for over 20 years and were given the long clipper stem as a distinguishing feature.

Transatlantic Service

The City of Manchester proved itself in the transatlantic service and briefly provided the shipping company's only overseas connection in 1854/55, when both the RMS City of Glasgow and the RMS City of Philadelphia were lost. In the spring of 1854, the crew and passengers also provided the only possible explanation for the disappearance of the City of Glasgow without a trace : Before it landed in Liverpool on March 17, 1845, the City of Manchester had found itself in unusually southern drift ice. In fact, the sister ship is likely to have crashed into an iceberg. The City of Manchester remained in Inman service until it was sold in 1871, when the Inman Line parted with their first, now obsolete, generation of steamers.

The Muller Murder Case

The Atlantic crossing from 20 July to early August 1864 went down in history of crime: On board were the Scotland Yard - Inspector Dick Tanner and several witnesses of the first known Zugmordes. The City of Manchester was more in New York than the sailing ship Victoria , on which the murder suspect Franz Muller fled England. Muller was brought back to England, convicted of the act and hanged.

literature

• Jürgen Thorwald: The merciless hunt . Zurich 1965.