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LOMBARDY (1873)
Service dates: 1873-1893
Official number: 68408
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 12.03.1873
- Launched.
- 01.05.1873
- Registered as Lombardy for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £91,500.
- 08.05.1873
- Left her builders.
- 22.05.1873
- Maiden sailing from Southampton to Bombay.
- 1875
- Damaged by bad weather in the Channel when outward bound and had to put into Plymouth.
- 05.11.1875
- Re-registered in Glasgow.
- 1876
- Bombay/Far East service.
- 02.1880
- Ran aground in the River Yangtze, refloated and dry-docked at Shanghai.
- 09.1881/05.1882
- Refitted and re-boilered in London.
- 05.1883
- Collided with the steamer Huntingtower in the Red Sea and repaired at Suez.
- 08.04.1889
- Re-measured.
- 07.1893
- Sold for £5,683 to Hajee Cassum Joosub, Bombay, and renamed Jubedu.
- 07.1896
- Sold to Indian shipbreakers at Bombay.