![]() 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
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Name | SS Home |
Owner | Red Bank line, New York City |
Operator | Carleton White |
Builder | Allaire Works, New York City |
Launched | 1837 |
Fate | Wrecked off Cape Hatteras, 9 October 1837 |
Notes | 130 on board |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 537 |
Length | 220 ft (67 m) |
Beam | 22 ft 6 in (6.9 m) |
Propulsion |
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Notes | 90 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.