Steamer, Lord Baltimore

Chesapeake City Lock and Steamer, Lord Baltimore

Here’s the Ericsson Line steamer, Lord Baltimore, headed east into the Chesapeake City lock. Cousin, John Sager, told me a story about catching this steamer at Chesapeake City with his mother and steaming to the liner’s wharf at Pratt and Light streets in Baltimore. John remembered disembarking there and walking up the street to visit his aunt. A Chesapeake City lady told me that she once boarded this boat with her mother to sail to Philadelphia. She said they glided through the canal and entered the Delaware River when a storm caused huge breakers that rocked the boat, which caused her to fall out of her upper berth unto her mother who was in the lower one.