Planes, Trains & Automobiles (and Ships!)
Ship – SS Paris
Notes & Comments
Info collected by Bruce Maliphant [##48059]
JOURNEYS
SPECIFICATIONS
Built by J. & G. Thomson, Ltd., Clydebank, Glasgow.
Tonnage: 10,669.
Dimensions: 527′ x 63′.
Twin-screw, 20 knots.
Three masts and two funnels.
Ex-City of Paris.
Renamed: Philadelphia.
Note: On May 20, 1899, she stranded on the Manacles Rock, Cornwall, and remained there until refloated in July of that year.
Sister ship: New York.

