The SS City of Boston was an iron-hulled, single-screw passenger steamship. Its maiden voyage was on Feb. 8, 1865, from Liverpool to New York. Its final sail took place on or after Jan. 28, 1870.

In September 1940, the British ship SS City of Benares was sunk by a German U-boat in the mid-Atlantic. Among the passengers were 90 children, nicknamed "seavacuees," whose parents had made the ...

In September 1940, the British ship SS City of Benares was sunk by a German U-boat in the mid-Atlantic. Among the passengers were 90 children, nicknamed “seavacuees,” whose parents had made ...

The SS City of Boston was an iron-hulled, single-screw passenger steamship. Its maiden voyage was on Feb. 8, 1865, from Liverpool to New York. Its final sail took place on or after Jan. 28, 1870. Of ...