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CANTON (1889)
Service dates: 1889-1903
Official number: 93223
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 26.09.1889
- Launched. The first P&O ship to repeat the name of a vessel lost in the Company’s service.
- 31.10.1889
- Registered as Canton for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 13.11.1889
- Left builder’s yard and ran trials. Caird’s built four sisters of which Canton was the last, after Bombay, Hong Kong and Shanghai, reputedly excellent value, being ordered when shipbuilding prices were low and giving a good return on the investment. Canton cost £46,146.
- 1890
- Towed P&O’s Siam from Aden to Bombay after her shaft had broken.
- 1900
- Transport during the Boxer Rising operation in China.
- 28.10.1903
- Sold to Messageries Maritimes for £13,163 and renamed Bosphere. In the next three months Messangeries Maritimes also bought Bombay and Shanghai, all three being in excellent condition and only sold because they were no longer adequate for P&O’s needs.
- 1922
- Sold to Italian shipbreakers.