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SHANGHAI (1889)

Service dates: 1889-1904

Official number: 93221

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

01.06.1889
Launched.
26.06.1889
Registered.
29.06.1889
Ran trials and left builders as Shanghai for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £47,250. She was the third of four sisters (the others were Bombay, Hong Kong and Canton) delivered in eight months.
02.1890
Cargo capacity 6,088 cubic metres (215,013 cubic feet).
19.09.1891
Collided with the anchored French steamer Sydney off Woosung Bar, Shanghai.
1897
Hired for trooping duties.
06.01.1904
Sold to Messageries Maritimes, France for £13,500 and renamed Crimee. Canton and Bombay were also purchased by Messageries.
1904
Carried Russian wounded home from the war with Japan.
1912
Ran aground in the Gulf of Salonica.
1923
Sold to Italian shipbreakers.
06.05.1923
Arrived at Spezia for demolition.


Ship technical details (PDF)