The S.S. Hibernian was built by Wm. Denny and Bros., in Dumbarton, Scotland. Tonnage: 1.888. Dimensions: 280'x37'. Single screw, 11 knots, Inverted engines, three masts and one funnel, Iron hull. Clipper bow. Maiden voyage: Liverpool-Quebec-Montreal, May 23, 1861. Lengthened in 1871 to 351 feet, (2,752 tons). Tonnage raised to 3,440 in 1884: reduced to two masts: compound engines installed. Scrapped in Germany in 1901. Sister ship: Norwegian. Note: First Atlantic steamships built with "spar decks" fore and aft, without bulwarks, an arrangement which added to the safety of the ships and also to the comfort of the passengers in bad weather.
I know that on April 21, 1876 the ship left Liverpool to Baltimore. My great-great grandparents William Claude Steele and his wife Margaret Steele and their children, James Steele and Robert Steele were aboard this ship.