City of Boston, having sailed from Halifax,…
January 1870 CE
She is commanded by Captain Halcrow, with one hundred and ninety-one people on board: fifty-five cabin passengers, fifty-two steerage passengers and a crew of eighty-four.
A number of the passengers are prominent businessmen and military officers from Halifax
A violent gale and snowstorm takes place two days after her departure which may have contributed to her loss.
Collision with an iceberg is another explanation suggested at the time.
City of Boston had been fitted with a two-blade propeller to replace her original three-blade propeller which had been broken during her previous voyage, and Captain Brooks of the SS City of Brooklyn had expressed the opinion that the new propeller would not be strong enough to let her make headway against the adverse weather.
Built by shipbuilders Tod & Macgregor of Partick, Glasgow and launched on November 15, 1864, her maiden voyage, on February 8, 1865, had been from Liverpool to New York via Queenstown.
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