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Authorization & Routes
 Steamship via Liverpool or Southampton to Philadelphia or New York and by railway to the final destiantions in America 
 Liverpool - Philadelphia 
 Fleet 1897Built Tonnage Shipyard
 S/S Belgenland1878 3,692 gross  Barrow Shipbuilding Co. 
 S/S Berlin1874 5,526 gross  Caird & Co. 
 S/S Chartered ships1877    
 S/S Chester1893 4,791 gross  Caird & Co. 
 S/S Indiana1873 3,386 gross  W. Cramp & Sons 
 S/S New York1888 10,499 gross  J. & G. Thomson & Co. 
 S/S Ohio1872 3,104 gross  W. Cramp & Sons 
 S/S Paris1888 10,499 gross  J. & G. Thomson & Co. 
 S/S St Louis1894 11,629 gross  W. Cramp & Sons 
 S/S St Paul1895 11,629 gross  W. Cramp & Sons 
 This list might not be a complete list of all the ships in the fleet.
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