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JUPITER (1835)

Service dates: 1848-1852

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


Passenger Liner.


Career

1835
Completed as Jupiter for St George Steam Packet Co, Dublin for their Liverpool/Newry service. Jupiter was the supreme god in the ancient Roman pantheon.
07.1836
Transferred to Dublin/Glasgow trade making one round trip every 5 days and connecting in Dublin with sailings to Cork.
07.1844
Ownership transferred to Cork Steamship Co, Cork.
1846
Badly damaged when she ran aground in the Avon when on the Bristol service.
05.1847
Purchased by James Hartley, London, a director of P&O.
17.06.1847
Chartered to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for the Peninsular service, to replace Royal Tar (which had been sold) and Tiber, which had been lost.
08.01.1848
Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
21.02.1848
At Corunna until 11th March with gale damage.
11.01.1851
At Corunna until 24th January after engine breakdown.
26.08.1851
One return voyage Southampton/Constantinople.
1852
Reportedly sold to the North of Europe Steam Navigation Company for a service to St Petersburg. Probably never delivered.
21.06.1852
Sold to shipbreakers.


Ship technical details (PDF)