The British snow OHIO (Official No. 2146; International Signal Code: HMWB), 239/248 tons (old/new measurement), was built at Sunderland in 1841. Measurements (Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1863/64): 232 tons; 86 x 25.2 x 15.5 feet (length x beam x depth of hold). Lloyd's Register for 1854/55-1857/58 give the master as J. Sangster, the owner as Pow & Co, the port of registry as North Shields, the port of survey as Shields, and the intended voyage as the West Indies. Lloyd's Register for 1858/59 gives the master as W. Dunn, and the intended voyage as the Mediterranean; Lloyd's Register for 1859/60 gives the master as Arrowsmith. The OHIO appears in Lloyd's Register for 1881/82, although she was last surveyed in September 1874.

The steamship OHIO was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd by Caird & Co, Greenock (yard #148), and was launched on 18 December 1868. 2,393 tons; 92,05 x 12,02 meters (length x breadth); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, single-expansion engine, service speed 10 knots; accommodation for 84 passengers in 1st class, and 717 in steerage; crew of 79.

The OHIO was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd's Baltimore service. 8 March 1869, maiden voyage, Bremen - Southampton - Baltimore. 6 September 1871, first voyage, Bremen - Southampton - New York (between 1871 and 1883, 11 roundtrip voyages). Winter 1876/77, forward cabin replaced with a cargo hatch. 1881, engines compounded by AG Vulcan, Stettin; service speed 11-12 knots. 3 October 1883, last voyage, Bremen-Baltimore. 24 March 1884, first voyage, Bremen-South America. 25 November 1893, last voyage, Bremen-South America. 1894, with steamship FRANKFURT, traded to Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co, in part payment for the steamships PFALZ and MARK; resold to Italian interests, renamed AMAZZONE, and placed in service to Argentina; seized by Argentine authorities in Buenos Aires for an unpaid debt of the new owners. 7 April 1896, auctioned to the Argentine Navy for £30,000, and renamed RIO SANTA CRUZ. 17 May 1896, first voyage to Patagonia. 1898, single voyage to La Spezia, Marseilles, and Birkenhead to land crew for completed Argentine warships. Returned to Patagonia service. 1904, hulked and struck from the Register. According to Roberto Andres Delu, she served as a floating prison after several revolutionary uprisings.

Sources: Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd, Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), inside front cover (photograph) and p. 18; Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), p. 49, no. 22; Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), pp. 546-547.