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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)