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The '''SS ''City of Philadelphia''''' was an iron-hulled single screw passenger [[steam ship]] owned by the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam Ship Company, also known as the "[[Inman Line]]."

The third vessel owned by the company, ''City of Philadelphia'' was an improvement on the design of [[SS City of Manchester|SS ''City of Manchester'']].

On 7 September 1854, she was wrecked near [[Cape Race]] on her maiden voyage, without loss of life.<ref name=gibbs>{{cite book | last = Gibbs | first = C. R. Vernon | title = Passenger Liners of the Western Ocean: A Record of Atlantic Steam and Motor Passenger Vessels from 1838 to the Present Day | publisher = John De Graff | date = 1957 | page = 116}}</ref><ref name=MC270954>{{Cite news |title=Loss of the City of Philadelphia |newspaper=The Morning Chronicle |location=London |date=27 September 1854 |issue=27382 }}</ref>

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