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TIBER (1846)
Service dates: 1846-1847
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 08.08.1846
- Laid down as Ceylon. Renamed Tiber prior to delivery, after the Italian river that flows through Rome.
- 26.10.1846
- Arrived at Southampton from her builders as Tiber for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £28,600. She had a bunker capacity of 225 tons. Her maiden voyage seems to have been to the west coast of Italy.
- 07.01.1847
- First voyage on Peninsular route, Southampton/Vigo/Oporto/Lisbon/ Cadiz/Gibraltar and return.
- 20.02.1847
- Left Lisbon on a homeward voyage from Gibraltar with 12 cabin passengers, a few second class and some local people travelling to Vigo on deck.
- 21.02.1847
- At about noon hit a rock in dense fog off Villa de Conde about 20km (12 miles) from Oporto and sank in deep water within 20 minutes. Boats from the shore rescued all aboard apart from the ship’s cook, a Spanish army officer, a Portuguese mother and child and some of the deck passengers. Some mails were recovered and forwarded to England in HMS Bloodhound which was sent to the scene, but the small amount of cargo and luggage that came or was got ashore was plundered by local people. Salvage was proposed in August 1847 but seems not to have been carried out. Tiber was insured for £20,000.