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GANGES (1850)
Service dates: 1850-1871
Official number: 31249
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 08.10.1850
- Launched.
- 14.12.1850
- Registered as Ganges for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £58,000.
- 27.02.1851
- Maiden voyage Southampton/Constantinople, breaking records for both the Southampton/Malta and Malta/Constantinople legs.
- 09.11.1851
- Left Southampton for Calcutta, carrying a detachment of troops to Cape Town in the process.
- 11.1854
- Took on mails for Chusan, disabled at Singapore.
- 1856
- Proposed to fit new boilers and convert her to screw propulsion but the work was not carried out.
- 1857
- Gross tonnage re-stated as 1,190 grt.
- 09.06.1859
- Having arrived at Galle bound Hong Kong to Bombay, was directed to collect passengers, mail and specie landed from Bengal which had run aground and take them to Calcutta.
- 18.06.1859
- Arrived at Calcutta, then proceeded coastwise to Bombay to rejoin her normal service.
- 04.1871
- Laid up at Hong Kong.
- 01.06.1871
- Sold to Rennie & Co, Shanghai.
- 1871
- Resold to Shanghai Steam Navigation Co, and reduced to a hulk.