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MOOLTAN (1861)
Service dates: 1861-1880
Official number: 29397
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 10.1860
- Launched by Mrs Hall, wife of Captain W H Hall, RN, a P&O director.
- 08.03.1861
- Registered as Mooltan for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 27.04.1861
- Ran trials. Fitted with P&O’s first experiment with compound engines.
- 20.07.1861
- Maiden sailing Southampton/Alexandria.
- Late 1862
- Sent out for Calcutta/Suez service.
- 1866
- Sent home to be fitted with new engines and boilers by C A Day, Southampton.
- 10.1871
- Came north through Suez Canal to run Southampton/Alexandria and Venice/Alexandria services.
- 1873
- Bombay/Galle/Sydney service.
- 15.11.1874
- Arrived at London and laid-up.
- 05.12.1876
- Re-registered at Greenock.
- 12.1880
- Sold to J Ellis and Co, Liverpool.
- 1883
- Sold to J J Wallace, London.
- 1884
- Sold to J Pedley, London, renamed Eleanor Margaret and reduced to a sailing vessel.
- 1888
- Sold to J D Bischoff, Germany.
- 28.06.1891
- Sailed from Newcastle upon Tyne for Valparaiso and disappeared without trace in the North Atlantic.