SALSETTE (1858)

Service dates: 1858-1871

Official number: 21578

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:

• Passenger Ship

Passenger Liner.

Career

30.03.1858

Launched.

17.05.1858

Registered.

29.05.1858

Left her builders as Salsette for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Named after an island off Bombay harbour.

31.05.1858

Arrived in Southampton.

11.06.1858

Maiden voyage Southampton/Alexandria/Southampton.

05-07.08.1858

At Cherbourg for the celebration of Queen Victoria’s visit.

01.11.1858

Left Southampton via St Vincent to Melbourne and Sydney arriving 15th January 1859. Thence via Mauritius to Suez for Suez/Aden/ Bombay service.

1859/1860

Ran between Suez, Mauritius and Sydney, carrying 250 tons of coal on deck to enable her to make the 15-day Mauritius/Albany passage.

05.1862

Broke adrift during the night at Singapore, but refloated undamaged.

24.07.1865

Anchored for 24 hours in Twofold Bay (between Sydney and Melbourne) for repairs to storm damage.

13.10.1867/11.02.1868

One of 9 P&O ships to serve as a troopship during the Abyssinian War.

02.1871

Sold for £13,000 to Adamson and Ronaldson, London.

1872

Lengthened.

1873

Fitted with two cylinder compound engines manufactured by Ravenhill and Hodgson, London. Tonnages increased to 2,408 gross, 1,759 net.

1873

Sold to Stoomvaart Maatschappij, Batavia, The Netherlands and renamed Sumatra.

1876

Repurchased by Adamson and Ronaldson, London. Sold to E F K Fortescue, London and resold to John Lacey, London.

1883

Sold to J T Matthews, London.

1887

Sold to Blyth Shipbuilding Company, Blyth, and engines converted to triple expansion.

1888

Sold to Gjemre and Company, Newcastle.

07.1888

Sold to Norman Steam Shipping Company, Newcastle.

1889

Sold to A/S Sumatra (B Bergesen), Norway.

1900

Sold to Italian shipbreakers at Genoa

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