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PEKIN (1847)
Service dates: 1847-1869
Official number: 31183
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 07.09.1846
- Launched as Sultan.
- 08.01.1847
- Insured as Pekin for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £46,000. Her name is from the capital of China.
- 15.02.1847
- Left Southampton via Gibraltar, St Helena, the Cape and Mauritius for Galle arriving 13th May. One source suggests she was intended to relieve larger vessels on the Bombay/Hong Kong route when seasonal traffic was too low for them to be economic.
- 31.05.1848
- Collided with US sailing ship Yohuette between Hong Kong and Singapore.
- 1851
- Survived a typhoon between Hong Kong and Singapore.
- 1857
- Gross tonnage re-stated as 1,182 grt.
- 09.1863
- Towed disabled Emeu into Hong Kong.
- 09.03.1866
- Laid up at Hong Kong and offered for sale.
- 05.1869
- Condemned and broken up at Hong Kong.