S.S. Boston | Key Ring

About our Key Rings

Our key rings and chains below are cast pewter and made in NE from rare & unique originals from Boston in the 1800s.

S.S Boston Stateroom Key Eastern Steamship Lines

Created by Wall Street financier Charles W. Morse in 1901 - the line sailed along the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada, operating out of Boston and New York. 
After WWI Eastern Steamship Lines took advantage of a U.S loans initiative for American built ships and hired naval architect Theodore Ferris to design new ships for the New York to Boston route. 
The ships had to be stable enough to cross Block Island Sound but narrow enough to pass through the Cape Cod Canal. 
One of these ships was the S.S Boston - built by Maryland Steel Co & commissioned for service in 1924. She was 402 feet long, with 345 staterooms. The Boston ran a route from NY to Boston to Halifax. 
Eastern's fleet was requisitioned by the US Government for military duty during WW2 with Boston being transferred to Britain as a war transport where it was sunk by torpedo in 1942.