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The ''Island Home'' was a sidewheel steamer operating as a ferry serving the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket during the second half of the nineteenth century. ==Nantucket ferry service== ''Island Home'' was built in 1855 in Greenpoint, New York.〔(Ship and Yacht Register Search )〕 Its machinery was manufactured at the Morgan Iron Works in New York. Leonard Merritt, superintending engineer of the New Haven Steamboat Company, supervised the machinery construction.〔Turner, Harry B. ''The Story of the Island Steamers'' (The Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1910)()〕 ''Island Home'' first arrived at Nantucket on September 5, 1855 under the command of Capt. Thomas Brown. It was the first purchase of the new Nantucket and Cape Cod Steamboat Co., which had been formed from the Nantucket Steamboat Co. earlier that year when the new railroad terminus wharf was built in Hyannis, Massachusetts. It was 184 feet long, with a 29'8" beam and measured 536 tons. It initially sailed the waters between Hyannis and Nantucket.〔〔(By the Sea: Folk Paintings by Janet Munro )〕〔(Vineyard Gazette Online )〕〔(Marie Fox Folk Art – Fine Prints & Paintings: Nantucket Island )〕 Capt. Brown had previously commanded the island ferry steamers ''Eagle's Wing'' and ''Massachusetts''. He was followed by Capt. Nathan Manter (1818–1897), who commanded the ''Island Home'' for thirty years.〔 ''Island Home'' is listed in the ''American Lloyd's Register of American and Foreign Shipping'' during 1859-1863 as a 450-ton, single-decked vessel. The 1858 ''New-York Marine Register'' lists the ''Island Home'' as a 536 ton vessel.〔 ''Island Home'' sailed the Nantucket-Hyannis route until the completion of the Woods Hole branch of the Old Colony Railroad in 1872; it subsequently sailed between Woods Hole and Nantucket.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Island Home (steamboat)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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