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INDUS (1871)
Service dates: 1871-1885
Official number: 65564
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 17.02.1870
- Laid down as Timsah.
- 20.02.1871
- Launched as Indus.
- 22.04.1871
- Registered.
- 05.05.1871
- Stranded at the mouth of the River Leven.
- 08.05.1871
- Refloated.
- 10.05.1871
- Delivered as Indus for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 03.06.1871
- Maiden voyage Southampton to Bombay via Suez.
- 17.03.1874
- Ran down and sank the sailing ship Princess Somawatty off Gravesend.
- 24.11.1874
- Collided with the steamer Abbotsford when outward bound of Dover, and put into Southampton for repairs.
- 09.11.1875
- Re-registered in Glasgow.
- 06.1876
- Broke down and towed to Singapore.
- 1878
- Fitted with new compound engines by J Howden & Co, Glasgow.
- 08.11.1885
- Stranded on Mullaittivu Shoals, 95km (60 miles) north of Trincomalee, Ceylon, when on passage from Calcutta to London.
- 09.11.1885
- Started taking water, slipped off the reef and sank in deep water, together with most of her cargo.