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BENTINCK (1843)
Service dates: 1843-1860
Official number: 31146
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 01.1841
- Specification agreed with P&O’s agents in Liverpool.
- 18.05.1841
- Ordered.
- 19.01.1843
- Launched.
- 24.06.1843
- Registered as Bentinck for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 26.06.1843
- First engine trials in Coburg Dock, Liverpool.
- 07.1843
- Departed Liverpool.
- 24.08.1843
- Sailed from Southampton to Calcutta via the Cape.
- 1850
- Returned to the UK for extensive refit.
- 20.11.1851
- Started Southampton/Alexandria service.
- 10.1852
- Aground in the Solent.
- 02.1860
- Ran aground in Gulf of Suez.
- 11.05.1860
- Sold to the Indian Government.