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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.