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GREAT LIVERPOOL (1838)
Service dates: 1840-1846
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 14.10.1837
- Launched as Liverpool for Transatlantic Steamship Co, Liverpool.
- 10.1838
- Sold to James Hartley, Liverpool. Cabins and staterooms reputedly finest afloat.
- 20.10.1838
- Maiden sailing Liverpool/New York, forced back to Cork after battling gale.
- 06.11.1838
- Reached New York after 16 days 17 hours.
- 1840
- Transferred to Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, renamed Great Liverpool.
- 09.1840
- Taken over by Peninsular Steam Navigation Company and renamed Great Liverpool.
- 10.1840
- First P&O sailing from Liverpool to Alexandria.
- 02.1841
- Ownership transferred to The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 24.02.1846
- Struck reef off Cape Finisterre, beached near Corcubion, Spain.
- 27.02.1846
- Broke up in storm.