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ALHAMBRA (1855)

Service dates: 1855-1862

Official number: 24758

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


Passenger Liner.


Career

n.d.
Laid down as Cintra and then renamed Braganza.
31.05.1855
Launched as Alhambra.
29.06.1855
Registered as Alhambra for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Named after Al-Hambra, the Red Palace, the ancient fortress of the Moorish monarchs of Granada in southern Spain.
04.07.1855
Ran trials.
07.07.1855
Maiden voyage. Sent out to Marseilles/Malta service.
17.03.1856
Engine trouble after leaving Malta for Marseilles. Returned to Malta on the 18th, then brought home for repairs.
18.08.1856
Southampton/Gibraltar service.
1857
Gross tonnage re-stated as 642 grt.
07.1857
Machinery failure off Portuguese coast. Towed home from Lisbon to Southampton and then to Blackwall for repairs. It is said that rumours of her problems were abroad in Southampton before they could possibly have been received.
28.09.1857
Returned to Peninsular service.
27.01.1859
Inaugurated Lisbon-only mails service (Gibraltar mails now carried by Alexandria steamers).
30.07.1859
Malta/Corfu line.
25.08.1860
Trooping Marseilles/Alexandria.
27.12.1860
Returned to Southampton/Lisbon service until it ended in 1862.
01.07.1862
Sold to Moss Joshua, London on behalf of John H Blackwood, Melbourne, for service Melbourne/Otago with McMechan Blackwood & Co.
26.09.1862
Sailed from Southampton for Melbourne.
1882
Sold to Nipper & See, Sydney.
1884
Sold to H Perdriau, Sydney.
1884
Sold to Aaron Wheeler Junior, Sydney.
30.06.1888
Struck a wreck off Newcastle, New South Wales and foundered off Port Stephens while en route Newcastle/Sydney.


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