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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)