SS Home

Nathaniel Currier's hand-colored lithograph, Awful Wreck of the STEAM PACKET HOME: on her passage from New York to Charleston, by which melancholy occurrence NINETY-FIVE PERSONS PERISHED
History
United States
NameSS Home
OwnerRed Bank line, New York City
OperatorCarleton White
BuilderAllaire Works, New York City
Launched1837
FateWrecked off Cape Hatteras, 9 October 1837
Notes130 on board
General characteristics
Tonnage537
Length220 ft (67 m)
Beam22 ft 6 in (6.9 m)
Propulsion
Notes90 lives lost

SS Home was a steam packet ship built in 1836 and wrecked in 1837 during Racer's Storm with a loss of 90 lives. She was commanded by Captain Carleton White.