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MIRZAPORE (1871)
Service dates: 1871-1897
Official number: 65604
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 20.05.1871
- Launched.
- 09.08.1871
- Registered as Mirzapore for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Mirzapore was one of the first P&O ships built to take into account the existence of the Suez Canal. A sister was named Khedive, and Caird’s took P&O’s Syria in a part-exchange deal worth £15,000. Her name is that of an Indian town on the Ganges between Benares and Allahabad.
- 02.09.1871
- Maiden voyage Southampton/Alexandria/Southampton. She spent most of her life operating on various sections of the London/ Bombay/Calcutta/Shanghai routes.
- 1873
- Carried W G Grace and the English cricket touring team on their way to Australia. They were on board from Southampton to Galle and sailed the remainder of the way on board Nubia (1854).
- 08.10.1875
- Re-registered in Greenock.
- 08.1879/01.1880
- Fitted with new boilers and superstructure, which considerably impaired her stability. Gross tonnage now 3,887. Bound for London she almost went aground in the gale that destroyed the Tay Bridge, and on arrival in London fell over in the docks, damaging some cranes. After that she always ran with ballast on board.
- 1882/1885
- Employed on the Australian run at times.
- 21.05.1884
- Re-measured. 3,892 grt, 2,168 nrt.
- 02.1890
- Cargo capacity 3,478 cubic metres (122,844 cubic feet).
- 11.1897
- Sold for £7,000 to Hajee Cassum Joosub, Bombay.
- 08.1899
- Sold to shipbreakers at Bombay.