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One September afternoon in 1874, Miss Bessie Wright cracked a bottle of champagne across the bow of a new steamer and sent it gliding into the Humber River.   Thus, one of the strangest vessels ever to come off a naval architect’s drawing board was launched. S.S. Bessemer Saloon Steamship was the brainchild of little Bessie’sContinue reading “The Short Life of the SS Bessemer – 1875.”