WILSON LINE STEAMERS

DELAWARE RIVER HISTORY

1910 WILSON LINE STEAMERS

New steamers prove satisfactory as the Wilson Line city of Philadelphia makes her

maiden trip from Wilmington to Philadelphia and docked at Chestnut Street wharf with

a large cargo and numerous passengers on board. The vessel completed a week or so ago

was christened last November by Miss Eleanor Rayburn, daughter of Mayor Rayburn. As

of today she is the only river steamer equipped with wireless apparatus and was used by the Wilson Line president, Captain Horace Wilson, at the wireless in the Believue – Stratford

in constant communication with the master of the Philadlephia, Captain W. S. Jacobs, during

the voyage.

The wireless was an extra attraction and wireless operator Harry W. Pierce was

kept busy the trip sending messages of passengers to shore stations..

The Philadelphia made the trip from Wilmington to Philasdelphia in two hours and

thirty four minutes, twenty two minutes less than her sister ship, the City of Chester.

The new City of Wilmington , sister ship of the City of Philadelphia and City of

Chester, made a trial voyage from the Harian & Hollingsworth ship yards down and up

the Delaware River passing all test with pilots Captain M. Wilson and D. D. Bacon and

Wilson Line officers on board. The president of Harian & Hollingsworth , William Cox,

was master of the trial trip.

Abstract: Thursday, March 31, 1910, Wilmington Evening Journal.