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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.