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HONG KONG (1889)
Service dates: 1889-1890
Official number: 93216
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 15.04.1889
- Launched.
- 10.05.1889
- Registered.
- 19.05.1889
- Ran trials and left builders as Hong Kong for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 22.05.1889
- Arrived in London.
- 01.06.1889
- Maiden voyage London/Suez Canal/Colombo/Singapore/Hong Kong/Shanghai.
- 05.11.1889
- Cargo capacity 6,095 cubic metres (215,289 cubic feet).
- 05.12.1890
- Wrecked at 0510hrs on Azalia Rock off the island of Perim in the Red Sea, when on passage from Shanghai to London.
- 06.12.1890
- Assam arrived and stood by until the 12th, taking off much of the cargo.
- 15.12.1890
- Hong Kong broke in two.
- 21.12.1890
- Siam stood by the wreck until the 24th, and then sailed via Aden to Bombay with Hong Kong's Asian crew.
- 21.01.1891
- Siam returned to the wreck, leaving again on the 22nd.