Island Home (steamboat)

Island Home from an 1890s souvenir booklet
History
United States
NameIsland Home
OperatorNantucket and Cape Cod Steamboat Company
In serviceSeptember 1855
Out of service1895 or 1896
Fate
  • Sold
  • Struck ice floe and sank, 1902
General characteristics
TypePassenger ferry
Tonnage536 tons
Length184 ft (56 m)
Beam29 ft 8 in (9.04 m)
Propulsion1 × 120 nhp vertical beam steam engine

The Island Home was a sidewheel steamer operating as a ferry serving the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket during the second half of the nineteenth century.