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UNION (1854)
Service dates: 1858-1863
Official number: 25117
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Steamer; Cargo Steamer.
Career
- 1854
- Launched for Union Steam Collier Company, London, hence her name. Original owners were the Trustees of the Union Company i.e. Thomas Hill, Edward Dixon and Joseph Lankester.
- 19.11.1858
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for £4,600.
- 01.02.1859
- Sailed from Southampton for Mauritius but returned 2nd February due to bad weather.
- 04.02.1859
- Left Southampton via St Vincent to Mauritius arriving 5th May 1860.
- 20.11.1859/29.04.1862
- Took part in lighthouse building operations on the Ashrafi and Daedalus shoals in the Gulf of Suez.
- 21.07.1862
- Left Bombay for Hong Kong, for China coastal service.
- 20.02.1863
- Sold to Dent and Company, Hong Kong.
- 12.1865
- Sold to Choshu-han, Japan, and renamed Otsucho Maru.
- 02.1866
- Sold to Satsuma-han, Japan, and renamed Sakurajima Maru.
- 07.1871
- Sold to Odaya, Bakan.
- 1872
- Sold to Speeding and Company, Shanghai, and traded under the United States flag.
- 1873
- Sold to A Murray, Shanghai. Resold to Tongkingsing (manager of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company) and renamed Yungning.
- 1878
- Transferred to China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, Shanghai.
- 1887
- Renamed Haechang.
- 1895
- Reduced to a hulk.