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Guy Mannering

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packet between New York and Liverpool;

Dimensions: 1,418 tons; 190 ft x 42 ft 6 in x 29 ft 8 in (length x beam x depth of hold); 3 decks (the first threedecked merchant vessel built in the United States); draft load 24 ft.

The name G Guy Mannering was derived from a romance published by Sir Walter Scott in 1815; Taylor & Merrill had already given names derived from Scott's works to two earlier ships built for them by William H. Webb, the Marmion (1846), and the Ivanhoe (1847).

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