RMS City of Philadelphia

The RMS City of Philadelphia was an early transatlantic steamer (1854) operated by the British shipping company Inman Line .

The ship was launched in 1854 at the Todd & Mcgregor shipyard in Glasgow . Like almost all early ships of the Inman Line, it was designed as a screw steamer with auxiliary rigging and measured at 2,100 GRT . With his clipper , Steven , which is typical for Inman Liner , it is said to have looked very similar to the pure sailing ships of that time.

The City of Philadelphia was named after its port of destination, which it was never supposed to reach. Sailed from Liverpool on August 30, 1854 , the ship ran aground on September 9, 1854 at Cape Race on the southeast corner of Newfoundland and was lost. All people on board could be saved.

This was the second loss of a steamer within a year for the Inman Line, after the City of Glasgow had disappeared without a trace in March 1854 . This was a life-threatening crisis for the still young shipping company , which in the meantime had only one steamer left with the City of Manchester .