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BANGALORE (1867)
Service dates: 1867-1886
Official number: 56802
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- n.d.
- Laid down by William Denny & Brothers for their own account.
- 05.11.1866
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £87,600.
- 21.03.1867
- Launched.
- 10.06.1867
- Registered as Bangalore for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Bangalore is an Indian city, capital of Mysore under British rule, now capital of Karnataka state.
- 17.03.1867
- Ran trials.
- 20.07.1867
- Maiden voyage Southampton/Alexandria/Marseilles/ Alexandria/ Southampton. Later in the year she set a long-standing record of 3 days, 14 hours, 20 minutes for the Southampton/Gibraltar run.
- 16.08.1871
- Out to Bombay via Suez Canal.
- 18.12.1872
- Bombay/Galle/King George Sound/Sydney service.
- 1874
- London/India, Alexandria/Brindisi/Venice and Bombay/Hong Kong.
- 02.1875/11.1875
- Fitted with new, more economical compound engines by her builders. A long poop was built to give more passenger space. Now 2,346 grt.
- 03.1876
- Bombay/Melbourne service.
- 1877
- Bombay/Venice and later Alexandria/Venice services.
- 1878
- Chartered to the Indian Government to carry troops to Malwa, towing two sailing ships and carrying Headquarters staff.
- 1882
- Bombay/Far East service.
- 08.1882
- Broke down between Kobe and Yokohama, towed to latter by Kwanko Maru.
- 1883
- Passenger capacity 35 first class, 31 second class. Cargo capacity 2,420 cubic metres (85,500 cubic feet)
- 1885
- Employed as a troopship during the Egyptian Campaign between Bombay and Suakin and later Bombay/Karachi.
- 03.1886
- Sold for £5,052 to Hajee Cassum Joosub, Bombay for the pilgrim trade.
- 1889
- Sold to Baladina and Co, Bombay.
- 1890
- Sold to Macbeth and Gray, Glasgow.
- 1891
- Sold to Wilh Wilhelmsen, Norway and renamed Coringa. Fitted with quadruple expansion steam engines by Fleming and Ferguson, Paisley.
- 1895
- Fitted with triple-expansion engines by North Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland.
- 18.03.1905
- Abandoned by her crew and foundered off the Azores when on a voyage from Cadiz to Halifax, Nova Scotia.