US steamer India
The Library of Congress only mentions in their caption of the Detroit Publishing Company photo that this is "Steamer India", photographed between 1900 and 1910.
However, a closer look at the picture - here shown restored and digitally hand colorized by me - shows that there is a sign "Anchor Line".
Anchor Line was a Scottish merchant shipping company, founded in 1855, mainly operating steamship service between US and Canadian east coast ports and UK ports.
All the names of their Ocean Liners in their passenger and freight fleet ended with the suffix "ia". And they all had black funnels.
The ship shown here is clearly not a transatlantic liner, and she flies the US flag. Maybe the Glasgow based shipping company had a subsidiary in the US, which operated this ship in coastal service or in the Great Lakes area? Additional information is welcome!
PS
Erie & Western Transportation Co. (Anchor Line), Buffalo seems to have been the original owner of India. The company could have been a US branch of the Glasgow based Anchor Line.
libraries.udmercy.edu/.../special.../index.php...
PS 2
The Ships provided this additional information:
No connection with the Scottish Anchor Line. The Erie and Western Transportation Company, known as the Anchor Line, established in 1865 with its terminal at the foot of Holland Street (Erie) and a passenger and commercial fleet of seventeen vessels, was by 1871 providing freight and weekly passenger service in the latter century to ports on the Great Lakes.
Passenger service on the Great Lakes was prevalent in Erie throughout the nineteenth century. Several steamer ships were launched from Erie in the 1830’s, accommodating up to 250 cabin passengers. The Anchor Line provided weekly passenger service in the latter century to ports such as Cleveland, Detroit, Port Huron, and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; with connections to Lake Superior, Milwaukee, and Chicago. The Erie & Port Dover Ferry offered regular (twice daily) passenger ferry service to Port Dover, Ontario for a short time from 1927 to 1932. The ferry “Keystone” could carry 80 automobiles and 1,000 passengers, and provided stateroom accommodations for 200."
US steamer India
The Library of Congress only mentions in their caption of the Detroit Publishing Company photo that this is "Steamer India", photographed between 1900 and 1910.
However, a closer look at the picture - here shown restored and digitally hand colorized by me - shows that there is a sign "Anchor Line".
Anchor Line was a Scottish merchant shipping company, founded in 1855, mainly operating steamship service between US and Canadian east coast ports and UK ports.
All the names of their Ocean Liners in their passenger and freight fleet ended with the suffix "ia". And they all had black funnels.
The ship shown here is clearly not a transatlantic liner, and she flies the US flag. Maybe the Glasgow based shipping company had a subsidiary in the US, which operated this ship in coastal service or in the Great Lakes area? Additional information is welcome!
PS
Erie & Western Transportation Co. (Anchor Line), Buffalo seems to have been the original owner of India. The company could have been a US branch of the Glasgow based Anchor Line.
libraries.udmercy.edu/.../special.../index.php...
PS 2
The Ships provided this additional information:
No connection with the Scottish Anchor Line. The Erie and Western Transportation Company, known as the Anchor Line, established in 1865 with its terminal at the foot of Holland Street (Erie) and a passenger and commercial fleet of seventeen vessels, was by 1871 providing freight and weekly passenger service in the latter century to ports on the Great Lakes.
Passenger service on the Great Lakes was prevalent in Erie throughout the nineteenth century. Several steamer ships were launched from Erie in the 1830’s, accommodating up to 250 cabin passengers. The Anchor Line provided weekly passenger service in the latter century to ports such as Cleveland, Detroit, Port Huron, and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; with connections to Lake Superior, Milwaukee, and Chicago. The Erie & Port Dover Ferry offered regular (twice daily) passenger ferry service to Port Dover, Ontario for a short time from 1927 to 1932. The ferry “Keystone” could carry 80 automobiles and 1,000 passengers, and provided stateroom accommodations for 200."