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CITY OF LONDONDERRY (1827)
Service dates: 1991-2002
Shipping lines: PENINSULAR STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 01.11.1826
- Launched.
- 1827
- Completed as City of Londonderry for Liverpool & Londonderry Steam Packet Company, Liverpool. She ran an irregular service between Liverpool and Londonderry before competition forced her withdrawal.
- 08.10.1829
- Sold to Richard Bourne and others, Dublin for the Dublin and London Steam Packet Company.
- 03.1830
- Richard Bourne shown as sole owner.
- 08.1837
- Registered at London. After Bourne and his partners sold their interest in the Dublin/London route jointly to the British & Irish and City of Dublin Steam Packet companies, they retained ownership of the City of Londonderry.
- 02.09.1837
- Left Liverpool for Falmouth, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar and Malaga in what appears to have been an attempt to provide a second route for Peninsular Steam Navigation Company. Afterwards moved coastwise to London to help replace Don Juan which had been lost on her first homeward mail sailing. Between December 1837 and March 1838 she made five return voyages on the Peninsular route and a further two between January and March 1839.
- 1840
- Was to have been transferred to the newly-incorporate P&O but this was forestalled by a clause in the Royal Charter forbidding the employment of ships on Peninsular or Mediterranean services unless under a mail contract.
- 06.05.1842
- Advertised for sale.
- 04.1845
- Reported broken up.