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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.