Early Steamship Services
Bristol City Line started a regular transatlantic steamship service between Bristol and New York in 1879. The early years of the service were troubled by shipwrecks. The first SS Bristol City sailed from New York on 28 December 1880 and was lost. Just under a year later, on 3rd December 1881, her sister ship the first SS Bath City sprang a leak off Grand Banks, Newfoundland and sank. 14 months after that, on 23 February 1883 the first SS Gloucester City struck an ice floe and sank. On 10 February 1887 the first SS Wells City collided with the SS Lone Star in the Hudson River and sank. She was salvaged but sold. On 23 February 1900 the second SS Bath City was wrecked on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. On 31 January 1904 the first SS Boston City collided with SS Colardo and was beached off Sandy Hook, New Jersey. She was refloated but sold.
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