Island Home from an 1890s souvenir booklet
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Island Home |
Operator | Nantucket and Cape Cod Steamboat Company |
In service | September 1855 |
Out of service | 1895 or 1896 |
Fate |
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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.