April 12, 2024
1888 STEAMSHIP Ticket/STEAMER SHREWSBURY Boston PLYMOUTH MA--Later on LAKE ERIE
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Ticket (just under 2" by 3 "") for a round trip voyage on the steamship Shrewsbury of the New England Steam Boat Co., from Boston to Plymouth, Massachusetts, dated 1888. The text on the ticket reads Steamer "Shrewsbury", Round Trip Ticket, Good Only From, Boston to Plymouth and Return, During Season 1888, 4718. The text on the reverse reads Complimentary, Not Good on Sundays. Built in Bath, Maine, in 1887, the steamship Shrewsbury seems to have been owned by the New England Steamboat Company and operated for the 1888 season as an excursion steam boat on the Boston to Plymouth route. The vessel may have then been used on the Boston to New York route. By 1891, the Buffalo and Niagara River Navigation Co. had purchased the Shrewsbury, and the small steamship sailed the waters of Lake Erie for most of the rest of its career. The vessel was rebuilt in 1898 for the Thousand Island Steamboat Co. so it could navigate the waters of the St. Lawrence River and was renamed the New York at that time. The vessel was dismantled in 1908. The Northeast Michigan Oral History Archives has an informative web page detailing some of the history of the Shrewsbury/New York. The unused ticket is in good or better condition with only light wear and soiling. Nice early steamship ticket!
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