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INDIA (1839)
Service dates: 1845-1849
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 19.01.1839
- Launched as India for Scott, Sinclair & Co.
- 08.1840
- Sold to R Bunyan, London.
- 1842
- Sold to Eastern Steam Navigation Co, India.
- 26.03.1845
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for £40,000.
- 13.12.1845
- Registered.
- 05.02.1847
- Idea mooted of having a new hull built and sailed out to India.
- 09.1847
- Considered bringing her home with cargo.
- 07.1848
- Surveyed at Garden Reach because of dry rot in her hull.
- 09.1849
- Sold at auction for use as a hulk.
- 1855
- Broken up.