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SUTLEJ (1882)

Service dates: 1882-1900

Official number: 83979

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


Passenger Liner.


Career

22.12.1881
Launched.
04.04.1882
Registered.
08.04.1882
Delivered as Sutlej for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £118,929. She was the last of the 5-strong ‘River’ class (after Clyde, Shannon, Ganges and Thames). The Sutlej is one of the five main rivers of the Punjab.
11.05.1882
Maiden voyage from London to Sydney, and thence to Bombay. She had a reputation as a very ‘dirty’ sea-boat, one Captain lacing hawsers through her fore rigging to break up seas coming on board.
24.08.1882
An explosion of the port forward boiler killed 3 crew.
22.05.1884
Re-measured. 4,164 grt, 2,103 nrt, deadweight 3,245 tons. Draught 7.617m (25ft 0in). 140 first class and 60 second class passenger capacity. Cargo capacity 3,199 cubic metres (112,990 cubic feet).
24.05.1887
Carried HRH the Duke and Duchess of Connaught from Bombay to Marseilles.
1895
Unsuccessfully attempted to tow off the battleship HMS Victorious, aground in the Suez Canal.
09.1898
Carried Indian troops to the Transvaal, one of 8 P&O ships employed in trooping to South Africa that year.
24.03.1900
Put up for auction but failed to reach her reserve price. Sold immediately afterwards to Victor Amalbert, France, for £10,161, to be broken up at Marseilles.


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