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BOMBAY (1889)
Service dates: 1889-1903
Official number: 93212
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 29.01.1889
- Launched.
- 12.03.1889
- Registered as Bombay for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £44,575.
- 23.03.1889
- Ran trials. With her sisters Hong Kong, Shanghai and Canton, all delivered later in 1889, she was intended primarily as a cargo carrier on the Indian and Eastern services.
- 03.1900
- Suffered a serious fire while in Royal Albert Dock, London.
- 1900
- Transport for Boxer Rising.
- 12.1903
- Sold for £13,500 to Messageries Maritimes, France. Renamed Danube and used in the Mediterranean; Messageries Maritimes had already bought Canton, and Shanghai went to them in 1904.
- 1904
- Fire aboard in Marseilles.
- 1920
- Survived collision with a mine.
- 1923
- Broken up at La Seyne.