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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.