Assassination Trivia

[RJNorton]

The guesses are now so close that I declare everyone a winner and shall give the answer. This ship is the Peruvian. John Surratt traveled across the Atlantic on the Peruvian in 1865.

There is a photo of the Peruvian on page 75 of Andy Jampoler's The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Surratt's Flight from the Gallows. The caption under the picture reads:

"Looking east at the RMS Peruvian on the Mersey River, the city of Liverpool in the background. St. Nicholas Church's distinctive pierced lantern tower, built in 1814, rises just forward of the ship's foremast. The rectangular building between that mast and the Peruvian's forward funnel (red with white band and black top) is the Tower Buildings at 22 Water Street, where U.S. consul Thomas Dudley had his office in the 1860s. The photograph dates from between 1891, when the second funnel was added, and 1905, when the ship was scrapped."

The Peruvian's maiden voyage was in 1864; thus it was very new when John Surratt was a passenger.