Mr. Inman specially directed his attention to the conveyance of emigrant passengers across the Atlantic, and he and Mrs. Inman, greatly to their credit, made a voyage in one of their earliest emigrant steamers, expressly for the purpose of ameliorating the discomforts and evils hitherto but too common in emigrant ships. The following table shows how successful he was in catering for the emigrant passenger trade:— PASSENGERS LANDED AT NEW YORK FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM IN 1870:— Cabin Line. Trips. Passengers. Steerage. Total. Inman 68 3,635 40,465 44,100 National 56 2,442 33,494 35,736 Guion 55 1,115 27,054 28,569 Anchor 74 1,637 23,404 25,041 Cunard 70 7,638 16,871 24,509 Of the vessels named in the preceding page the CITY OF WASHINGTON and CITY OF BOSTON met with the sad fate that overtook the PRESIDENT and the PACIFIC. They sailed, but never reached the desired haven, and in course of time were posted “missing.” Two of them, the CITY OF LONDON and the CITY OF LIMERICK, were sold to Messrs. W. H. Ross & Co., and sailed for some time between London and New York. The CITY OF ANTWERP was purchased by Messrs. William Johnston and Co., who changed her name to THANEMORE and employed her for several years in their Liverpool and Baltimore trade. By a strange fatality, each of the three steamers last named, sailed from its respective port and was never afterwards heard of. The first two disappeared in 1881, and the third in 1890. The CITY OF RICHMOND was sold to a firm who were the first to employ ocean liners for ocean pleasure cruising, and for two or three summers she sailed from Newcastle to the Norwegian fjords. Upon the death of Mr. William Inman, which occurred in 1881, the management of the line was taken over by Messrs. Richardson, Spence & Co. Since then it has undergone several changes. Its title of Inman Line was discontinued, and that of “American” Line adopted, and its British headquarters transferred from Liverpool to Southampton. It is now (1903) one of the group of Atlantic steamship companies included in the “Morgan” combine.