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BENGAL (1885)
Service dates: 1885-1906
Official number: 87424
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 06.11.1885
- Launched.
- 04.12.1885
- Registered as Bengal for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 15.12.1885
- Ran trials.
- 19.12.1885
- Left the Clyde.
- 21.12.1885
- Arrived in London.
- 01.01.1886
- Opened new docks at Tilbury.
- 02.01.1886
- Maiden sailing London/Sydney.
- 1888
- Re-measured, 4,344 grt.
- 01.10.1891
- Minor damage when she hit Parramatta moored in the Suez Canal.
- 07.12.1891
- Entering Royal Albert Dock, London, when the tug Tasmania hit her propeller.
- 1895
- Re-measured, 4,656 grt.
- 05.1906
- Sold to Shah Steam Navigation Company of India Ltd, Bombay and renamed Shah Najam.
- 10.1907
- Sold to Hajee Ahmed Hassum, Bombay.
- 23.03.1908
- Arrived at Bombay to be broken up.