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COREA (1864)
Service dates: 1864-1865
Official number: 48690
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 10.12.1863
- Launched for A Cohen, Moulmein as Cohen.
- 18.02.1864
- Registered in name of R C Macrae, London.
- 15.04.1864
- Purchased on completion by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for £26,000, because of ‘pressing requirements’ in the Far East, i.e. the impending Hong Kong/Yokohama mail service.
- 22.04.1864
- Renamed Corea.
- 30.04.1864
- Registered.
- 21.05.1864
- Left Southampton for Mauritius, Singapore and Hong Kong.
- 29.06.1865
- Left Hong Kong for Swatow, Amoy and Foochow with 103 aboard (17 European crew, 3 European passengers, 83 native crew and Chinese deck passengers) just as a typhoon was breaking, and disappeared without trace.