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MALACCA (1866)
Service dates: 1866-1882
Official number: 54692
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 05.10.1865
- Launched as King of the Greeks for Anglo-Greek Steam Navigation Company, London. She had been laid down as a speculation by the builders.
- 27.03.1866
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company whilst fitting out.
- 23.05.1866
- Registered as Malacca. The name is taken from the strait between Malaya and Sumatra.
- 13.08.1866
- Arrived in Southampton.
- 25.08.1866
- Maiden sailing Southampton/Mauritius/Bombay (arrived 19th October). She spent most of her career on the Hong Kong/Yokohama service.
- 07.08.1871
- Chartered by British Government agents in Hong Kong to rescue the crew of the steamship HMS Megaera which had been beached on St Paul’s Island after she sprang a leak in the southern Indian Ocean.
- 30.08.1871
- Arrived off the island in heavy weather and lost two anchors. The steam sloop HMS Rinaldo was standing by and having similar troubles. Malacca also had two lifeboats smashed by the sea, her quarterdeck was wrecked and her on-board livestock was drowned.
- 05.09.1871
- In heavy weather embarked 40 officers and 286 seamen and transported them to King George’s Sound (arrived 14th September).
- 03.09.1872
- Re-registered: 1,698 gross tons, 1,037 net.
- 12.11.1873
- At Hartlepool for engines to be compounded by J Richardson & Sons.
- 17.07.1874
- Re-registered: 1,709 gross tons, 1,045 net.
- 19.07.1874
- Left London via Suez Canal to Bombay.
- 02.06.1882
- Sold for £14,916 to the Sultan of Zanzibar.
- 01.1892
- Sold to G Essayan, Manchester.
- 11.1894
- Sold to Dutch shipbreakers at Rotterdam.