SS Middletown – sister ship to Hartford

Built by Ncafie & Levy of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.
Gross tonnage, 1554;
Dimensions, 243 by 45 ft…
Subdivided by four iron bulkheads:
Passenger accommodations. 350;
Two inverted direct-acting compound engines delivering 1,000 hip. at 100 pounds pressure, turning shafts at 116 r.p.m.:
Top speed, 17 knots. (Sister ship to S. S. HARTFORD, but having one stack, not two.

Maiden voyage. April 28, 1896. from New York via Long Island Sound up the Connecticut River to Hartford with stops at Old Saybrook. Lyme, Essex, Brockway’s. Deep River, Old Lyme, Goodspeed’s Landing, Fast Haddam, Middle Haddam, Middletown. Portland, Gildersleeve’s, Rocky Hill. South Glastonbury. Wethersfield and Hartford.