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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.