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SUMATRA (1867)
Service dates: 1867-1886
Official number: 56844
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 08.03.1867
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 06.05.1867
- Launched.
- 24.09.1867
- Ran trials.
- 28.09.1867
- Left builders as Sumatra for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 12.10.1867
- Maiden sailing Southampton/Alexandria/ Marseilles /Alexandria/ Southampton.
- 17.12.1867
- Sent out to Bombay, arriving 8th February 1868) for Bombay/Aden/ Suez service.
- 14.09. 1869
- Picked up passengers and most of crew of Carnatic, wrecked in the Gulf of Suez.
- 1873/1874
- Fitted with compound vertical engines by Denny & Co.
- 1874/1875
- Primarily Venice/Alexandria and Venice/Alexandria/Bombay services.
- 1876
- Bombay/Galle/Melbourne service, then reverted to Bombay/Venice.
- 14.11.1880
- Ran aground in Brindisi harbour when avoiding the brig St Catello.
- 1882
- Bombay/Far East service.
- 1883
- Passenger capacity 22 first class, 34 second class. Cargo capacity 2,947 cubic metres (104,100 cubic feet).
- 24.04.1883
- Rescued crew of shipwrecked steamer Carnarvonshire between Kobe and Yokohama.
- 05.1886
- Sold for £5,767 to Hajee Cassum Joosub, Bombay.
- 11.1888
- Sold to Macbeth and Gray, Glasgow.
- 01.1889
- Sold to James R Brady, Belfast.
- 04.03.1889
- Destroyed by fire in the Eastern Mediterranean in position 32°00N-31°15’E when on a voyage from Batoum to Hong Kong with a cargo of cased petroleum.