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BRINDISI (1880)
Service dates: 1880-1899
Official number: 81478
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 07.09.1880
- Launched as Maxima having been laid down as a speculation. Purchased by P&O for £81,000.
- 03.12.1880
- Registered as Brindisi for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She is named after the city and seaport of south-east Italy. In 1870 it had replaced Marseilles as the European terminal of the fast P&O service linking trans-European railways with its mail steamers in Egypt.
- 15.12.1880
- Ran trials and delivered. Being designed for other owners her accommodation was unlike that in contemporary P&O ships, but was still considered exceptionally good, and her T-shaped saloon which could take 100 passengers at a sitting was a popular feature soon copied in other ships built for the Company.
- 20.12.1880
- Maiden voyage London/Bombay/Australia. Though used on several services spent most of her time on the ‘Onion Mail’ between India and the Far East.
- 23.05.1884
- Re-measured. 3,474 grt, 2,074 nrt. 94 first class and 29 second class passenger capacity.
- 1889
- She and Ravenna used in an attempt to start a new service from Antwerp to Australia by way of the Cape, but only made one voyage each before existing competition forced P&O to abandon the route.
- 03.1889
- Advertised to make the second sailing on a new Australian service via the Cape but there was not enough business and she went to Singapore instead.
- 15.03.1889
- Re-measured. 3,505 grt, 2,129 nrt, deadweight 4,064 tons. Draught 7.617m (25ft 0in). 50 first class passenger capacity only. Cargo capacity 5,680 cubic metres (200,627 cubic feet).
- 01.07.1898
- Her crew unsuccessfully attempted to extinguish a fire on board P&O’s Ganges at Bombay.
- 13.12.1898
- At anchor at Moji when hit by the Japanese steamer Tayeyama Maru, which sank. Brindisi was pushed into the Toji Maru and did not leave port until 1912hrs when she proceeded to Nagasaki and was dry-docked for 6 days.
- 03.03.1899
- Sold at auction for £5,000 to G P Denbigh, Vladivostok, and renamed Dalny Vostok.
- 1903
- Sold to Japanese shipbreakers.