Island Home (steamboat)
Island Home from an 1890s souvenir booklet | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Island Home |
| Operator | Nantucket and Cape Cod Steamboat Company |
| In service | September 1855 |
| Out of service | 1895 or 1896 |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger ferry |
| Tonnage | 536 tons |
| Length | 184 ft (56 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft 8 in (9.04 m) |
| Propulsion | 1 × 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.