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DOURO (1853)
Service dates: 1853-1854
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 25.06.1853
- Launched.
- 13.08.1853
- Arrived at Southampton. One of the few P&O ships of her time to be given painted ports; barquentine rigged, she looked very smart.
- 23.08.1853
- Registered as Douro for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £28,050.
- 27.08.1853
- Maiden sailing one of two round voyages Southampton/Constantinople to work her engines in.
- 01.12.1853
- Salved the French steamer Paris which had broken a shaft, towing her into Plymouth on 3rd December 1853.
- 27.12.1853
- Sent out for the Bombay/Singapore/Hong Kong route.
- 24.05.1854
- Encountered a severe typhoon in the South China Sea and became a total loss.
- 26.05.1854
- Ran aground on the North Paracel shoal and became a total loss.
- 03.06.1854
- Jolly boat arrives in Hong Kong.
- 05.06.1854
- Malta arrives at the wreck.
- 06.06.1854
- Tartar arrives at the wreck and takes off some passengers and mails.
- 08.06.1854
- Pekin arrives en route from Bombay and takes off remaining passengers, baggage, and rest of mails.
- 10.06.1854
- Wreck abandoned.