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TEHERAN (1874)

Service dates: 1874-1894

Official number: 68538

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


Passenger Liner.


Career

20.03.1874
Launched.
02.05.1874
Registered.
05.05.1874
Ran trials and delivered as Teheran for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £94,100.
21.05.1874
Maiden voyage Southampton/Bombay/Far East.
1882
Fitted with new boilers.
22.05.1884
Renamed. Tonnages 2,588 grt, 1,671 nrt, deadweight 2,378 tons. Draught 21ft 4in. 63 first class and 24 second class passenger capacity. Cargo capacity 2,949 cubic metres (104,146 cubic feet).
27.02.1886
Took on mails from Thames, aground leaving Hong Kong.
11.1886
Fire in bunkers near Nagasaki.
1889
Converted at Bombay to a cargo ship for the Japan service. Cargo capacity 4,246 cubic metres (149,977 cubic feet).
1.1894
Sold for £9,497 to Chuyetsu Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan and renamed Toyei Maru.
13.11.1905
Beached after striking a rock at the entrance to Ujina harbour. Subsequently declared a total loss.


Ship technical details (PDF)