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MADRAS (1852)
Service dates: 1852-1874
Official number: 31143
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 08.01.1852
- Launched.
- 24.03.1852
- Delivered as Madras for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 31.03.1852
- Maiden voyage Southampton/Constantinople.
- 10.05.1852
- Trooping voyage to Jersey.
- 20.12.1852
- Left Southampton for Calcutta.
- 29.04.1853
- Entered Galle.
- 19.04.1854
- Voyages Singapore/Sydney.
- 03.1855
- Bombay/Suez service.
- 1857
- Gross tonnage re-stated.
- 07.1857
- Requisitioned for trooping during the Indian Mutiny.
- 11.11.1857
- Took mails from Emeu aground in the Red Sea.
- 1858
- Bombay/Suez service.
- 08.1861
- Refit at Bombay.
- 1862
- Bombay/Sydney service.
- 08.04.1865
- Broke her shaft between Galle and King George’s Sound.
- 23.11.1866
- Embarked passengers from Norna at Tricomalee.
- 07.12.1866
- Towed Norna to Bombay.
- 14.09.1867
- Towed Surat off Shanteeb Reef.
- 30.10.1867
- Requisitioned for service during the Abyssinian War.
- 1869
- Hong Kong services.
- 1870
- New poop fitted at Bombay.
- 02.09.1873
- Struck a submerged object off Namoa Island.
- 06.09.1873
- Refloated.
- 11.01.1873
- Broke her shaft on voyage Hong Kong/Yokohama.
- 08.1874
- Sold to the Japanese Government.
- 1875
- Resold to Mitsubishi Kisen Kaisha, Japan.
- 1878
- Machinery removed and re-rigged as a sailing ship.
- 1885
- Sold to unidentified Japanese owners.
- 01.1887
- Sold to Indochina Steam Navigation Co Ltd, reduced to a hulk at Wuhu.
- 08.1930
- Reported sold to Chinese buyers.