City of Chester, 1873

Item

Identifier: imm-0070

Staff Only

Image of City of Chester (1873); mkey 196247

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Immigration and Steamships database contains descriptive information about 320 passenger and immigrant vessels built from 1833 to 1929. Records may identify the vessel, year built, shipping line, builder and place of construction, tonnage and dimensions, machinery and speed, masts and funnels, passenger capacities, routes, and vessel history. Most records are associated with one or more images from Mystic Seaport Museum collections.

Dates

Creation: 1873

Extent

From the Collection: 320 record(s)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General

Vessel Details

Line: Inman Line

Builder and location: Caird & Co., Greenock, Scotland

Tonnage and dimensions: 4,560 tons; 444' x 42'

Machinery and speed: Single-screw, 15 knots

Masts and funnels: 3 masts, 1 funnel

Passengers: 1st class: 125; 2nd class: 80; 3rd class: 1,310

Routes: Liverpool-Queenstown-NY

History: Transferred to American Line in 1893. Renamed CHESTER (1893), Sedgwick (1898), ARIZONA (1905) NAPOLETANO (Italian Line). Scrapped 1907.

Legacy record identifier: City of Chester1873