Steamship Wyoming
Single-screw steamship: 3238 tons: 366' x 43' x 27'
Built: 1870 by Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co. at Newcastle, England
Over a twenty-year period the Guion liner Wyoming made over thirty-eight voyages with Mormon companies. She carried more Latter-day Saints across the Atlantic than any other vessel-a total of 10,473. These companies ranged from 10 to 775 Saints. The first company left Liverpool on 10 May 1871 and the last company on 20 September 1890. All passages between Liverpool and New York averaged 10.8 days. Of the thirty-eight crossings Captain Charles Leonard Rigby commanded twenty. The other skippers were Edward Whineray, James Morgan, Charles James Beddoe, James A. Guard, James Price, Thomas Jones, Henry Gadd, George Siddons Murray, and John Douglas.
This British steamer was owned by Williams & Guion and hailed out of Liverpool. She had an iron hull, three decks, two masts, one funnel, and the earliest compound engines in the transatlantic service. Her tonnage was later increased to 3700. In 1893 the Wyoming was scrapped.
