Name/Title
Steamer Joppa (1885)Entry/Object ID
2017.2.002Description
Year Built: 1885
Built By: Harlan & Hollingsworth
Built At: Wilmington, DE
Built For: Maryland Steamboat Company
Official Number: 76576
Length: 190.0 feet
Beam: 30.5 feet
Depth of Hold: 8.5 feet
Gross Tons: 607 gross, 484 net
Propulsion: Sidewheel
Hull: Iron
Engine: 490 hp
Purchased by: Included in the sale of the company to the Baltimore, Chesapeake, and Atlantic Railroad Company (BC&A) on 20 October 1894. BC&A survived into the 1920s. While losing money it gradually became part of the Baltimore and Virginia Railroad (B&V), another entity under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Sold to private interests in 1930.
Route: Baltimore to the Choptank River landings.
Captains: Captain Wheeler in 1890
Later Name: City of Salisbury in 1935, Colonel Henry R. Casey in 1942, City of Salisbury 1947
Disposition: Scrapped 1950
