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VENETIA (1873)
Service dates: 1873-1893
Official number: 68388
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 30.12.1872
- Launched.
- 19.02.1873
- Registered as Venetia for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £98,000.
- 28.02.1873
- Left builders.
- 15.03.1873
- Maiden voyage London/Shanghai.
- 24.05.1873
- Returned with new season’s tea from Hankow, via Singapore, Aden, Suez, Port Said and London arriving 12th July.
- 1877
- Carried former US President Ulysses S Grant for part of his world cruise.
- 11.1880/ 04.1881
- Fitted with new boilers.
- 1885
- Transport London/Ceylon/Far East.
- 03.1886
- Stranded at Kobe for 3 days when in charge of a local pilot.
- 20.02.1889
- Re-measured.
- 05.1893/07.1893
- 39 deaths on board, mostly on the return leg of a pilgrim voyage from Bombay/Aden/Jeddah/Karachi/Bombay.
- 09.1893
- Sold for £4,692 (Rs 70,000) to B Dunjeebhoy for demolition at Bombay.