SS City of Baltimore Passenger Lists 1937

The SS City of Baltimore Approaching the Landing Stage. New Ships, One Class, Low-cost Brochure by the Baltimore Mail Line, 1930s. GGA Image ID # 1d2caf292a

City of Baltimore (1919) Baltimore Mail Line.

Built by Bethlehem's Alameda Shipyard, California. Tonnage: 8,378. Dimensions: 486' x 56'. Single-screw, 16 1/2 knots. Steam turbines. Two masts and. one funnel. Passengers: 83 in one class. First voyage: Baltimore-Southampton-lavre-Hamburg, July 2, 1931. Notes: Transferred to Panama-Pacific Line in 1938. Served as a troopship in World War II. After war laid up in the reserve fleet. Renamed: Heywood (1940) United States Government. Ex-Steadfast (1931). Sister ships: City of Hamburg, City of Havre, City of Newport News and City of Norfolk. Note: These sister ships were originally freighters. All were reconstructed and lengthened in 1931 by Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, Kearny, N. J. The combination passenger-cargo liners were transferred from trans-Atlantic service to the New York-Panama Canal-California trade route in 1938. All were sold to the United States Government in 1940.

All Digitized Passenger Lists For the SS City of Baltimore Available at the GG Archives. Listing Includes Date Voyage Began, Steamship Line, Vessel, Passenger Class and Route.

1937-07-24 SS City Of Baltimore Passenger List

• Steamship Line: Baltimore Mail Line
• Class of Passengers: Cabin (One Class)
• Date of Departure: 24 July 1937
• Route: Hamburg and Southampton to Norfolk and Baltimore
• Commander: Captain F. E. Cross, Lt. Cmdr., U.S.N.R

Passenger Lists contained in the GG Archives collection represent the souvenir list provided to the passengers of each cabin class (and other classes). Many of these souvenir passenger lists have disappeared over the years. Our collection contains a sampling of what was originally produced and printed by the steamship lines.