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ROHILLA (1880)
Service dates: 1880-1900
Official number: 81798
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 27.04.1880
- Launched.
- 02.06.1880
- Registered and delivered as Rohilla for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £86,937. She and her sisters Ravenna and Rosetta were the last P&O ships to have their best accommodation aft, and were ordered from three different yards because of the closeness of the tenders and to get them into service as soon as possible.
- 01.12.1880
- First of four return voyages UK/Australia.
- 22.05.1884
- Re-measured. 3,387 grt, 2,175 nrt, deadweight 3,248 tons. Draught 7.160m (23ft 6in). 100 first class and 32 second class passenger capacity. Cargo capacity 4,400 cubic metres (155,397 cubic feet).
- 1895
- Rammed by Blue Funnel liner Hector while at anchor in Shanghai.
- 1900
- Fire aboard at Kobe.
- 10.1900
- Sold for £10,791/15/- to Toyo Kisen KK, Japan and renamed Rohilla Maru.
- 1903
- Stranded on Palauig Reef off the Philippines and seriously damaged.
- 1904
- Taken over by the Japanese Government for service as a hospital ship during the Russo-Japanese War, and subsequently purchased outright.
- 10.1904
- Stranded in Moji Harbour, and refloated with difficulty.
- 12.1904
- Extensively damaged in collision with transport Manshu Maru in Mayi Harbour. Beached to avoid sinking.
- 1905
- Resold to Toyo Kisen KK, Japan.
- 07.07.1905
- Wrecked on Manaita Rock at Ujina in the Inland Sea of Japan and broke her back. Declared a constructive total loss and left to break up where she lay.