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BEHAR (1855)
Service dates: 1858-1874
Official number: 26995
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Ship.
Career
- n.d.
- Laid down as Erie for the Canadian Steam Navigation Company but sold prior to launch.
- 01.09.1855
- Launched as Barcelona for Linea Vapores Correos Espanoles Trasatlanticos, Spain.
- 1856
- Sold to Compagnie Franco-Americaine (Gauthier Freres et Cie, managers), France, and renamed Barcelone.
- 26.11.1858
- Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company together with other ships that became China, Ellora and Orissa.
- 21.12.1858
- Registered and renamed Behar following a refit by her builders. Behar (or Bihar) is a state of northeast India, for most of British rule part of the Bengal presidency.
- 27.12.1859
- First of six voyages Southampton/Alexandria.
- 10.05.1860
- Left Southampton for St Vincent and Bombay.
- 11.06.1861
- Broke her shaft between Aden and Suez.
- 10.11.1865
- Broke her shaft again and towed to Penang by Emeu, thence to Singapore by Ottawa. On her return voyage fell in with Emeu which had dropped her screw leaving Bombay and returned the favour.
- 08/09.1866
- Aground in the Canton River.
- 07.1868
- Fitted with new boilers at Bombay.
- 02.11.1871
- Forwarded mails for Rangoon, sunk at Galle.
- 19.11.1874
- Sold.
- 02.1875
- Renamed Niigata Maru. One of four ships (two of the others were formerly P&O’s Delta and Madras) to open the first Japanese weekly liner service between Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai.
- 1877
- Sold to Mitsubishi Goshi Kaisha, Japan.
- 1878
- Fitted with compound steam engine by Lobnitz Coulborn and Co, Renfrew.
- 1885
- Sold to Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Japan.
- 1894
- Sold to K Owaki, Japan.
- 1896
- Sold to Oki Kikusaburo, Japan.
- 1897
- Sold to Yagi Sennosuke, Japan.
- 1897
- Sold to shipbreakers at Kobe.