Like so many of the Inman Line's steamers, their third City of New York, 10,499 tons, was a handsome ship as well as being the first twin-screw passenger liner to ply the North Atlantic. Built by Thomson's of Glasgow in 1888, she measured 560 feet in length with a 63 foot beam, and was originally constructed with three funnels. The first vessel to exceed 10,000 tons since Brunel's colossal Great Eastern of 1858, she actually became the largest ship in the world when the obsolete leviathan was finally broken up in 1889. City of New York's maiden voyage to her name-sake was in August 1888 and she captured the 'Blue Riband' for the fastest Atlantic crossing twice before she was transferred to the American Line following the demise of the famous Inman Company early in 1893. Renamed New York and given revised passenger allocations, she maintained a regular Southampton to New York service - apart from a brief spell as the U.S. Navy's auxiliary cruiser Harvard during the Spanish-American War of 1898 - until 1901 when she was extensively remodelled. This modernisation included the loss of one funnel, but she was back in service in 1903 to resume her Southampton to New York sailing and remained on that route until she altered her U.K. port to Liverpool in 1941. Requisitioned as an American government armed transport for two years form April 1918, she was temporarily renamed Plattsburg until she was released back to peace-time duties in 1920. Changing owners several times in as many years, she was eventually sold at auction in Constantinople and broken up at Genoa in 1923.