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BOMBAY (1852)
Service dates: 1852-1878
Official number: 30710
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 20.05.1852
- Launched.
- 21.07.1852
- Registered as Bombay for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 29.07.1852
- Maiden sailing Southampton/Alexandria.
- 09.10.1852
- Left Southampton for positioning voyage to Calcutta via Tenerife.
- 17.01.1853
- One return voyage Calcutta/Hong Kong/Bombay.
- 17.06.1853
- Transferred to Calcutta/Suez service.
- 05/12.1856
- Laid up at Calcutta.
- 27.12.1856
- One voyage Calcutta/Hong Kong/Bombay.
- 1857
- Gross tonnage re-stated as 1,186 grt.
- 01.03.1857
- Transferred to Bombay/Suez service.
- 27.06..1859
- One round voyage Suez/Mauritius/Sydney and return.
- 19.03.1861
- Shaft broke between Bombay and Galle, returned to Bombay.
- 03/10.1861
- Laid up in Bombay.
- 25.11.1861
- Broke shaft and towed into Singapore by steamer Mohr.
- 01.1862
- Transferred to Bombay/Galle/Sydney service.
- 02.02.1862
- Broke shaft southbound from Galle, made Mauritius for repairs.
- 08.05.1865
- Broke shaft northbound from King George's Sound, made Mauritius under sail.
- 29.05.1865
- Resumed service after 8 days in dry-dock.
- 03/11.1869
- Fitted with new boilers in Bombay, then one Indian coastal trooping voyage before sent out to Hong Kong station.
- 24.01.1870
- Involved in a collision with the USS Oneida.
- 04.04.1872
- Rescued treasure and opium from ss Finlong wrecked on Breaker Point, Amoy.
- 23.10.1872
- Towed Ottawa (broken down) into Hong Kong.
- 30.04.1875
- Towed Gwalior (leaking) into Hong Kong.
- 24.09.1875
- Assisted at wreck of Sunda off Turnabout Island.
- 25.01.1878
- Sold to Kwok Acheong, Hong Kong.
- 24.12.1880
- Destroyed by fire off Woosung.