Island Home (steamboat)

Island Home from an 1890s souvenir booklet
History
United States
Name	Island Home
Operator	Nantucket and Cape Cod Steamboat Company
In service	September 1855
Out of service	1895 or 1896
Fate	Sold Struck ice floe and sank, 1902
General characteristics
Type	Passenger ferry
Tonnage	536 tons
Length	184 ft (56 m)
Beam	29 ft 8 in (9.04 m)
Propulsion	1 × 120 nhp vertical beam steam engine

The Island Home was a sidewheel steamer operating as a ferry serving the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket during the second half of the nineteenth century.