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EUXINE (1847)
Service dates: 1847-1868
Official number: 13954
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 30.08.1847
- Launched.
- 10.12.1847
- Registered.
- 17.12.1847
- Delivered as Euxine for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 03.01.1848
- Maiden sailing Southampton/Black Sea, her ‘great capacity and superiority in other respects’ being thought worthy of note. Her Master, Captain Wilson, died when she was in the Bay of Biscay.
- 27.07.1848
- Third sailing onwards turned round at Constantinople.
- 08.10.1852
- Towed into Lisbon for repairs.
- 01.1853
- The first P&O ship to call at Marseilles when the new route from there to Malta (later extended to Alexandria) was opened.
- 1854/1856
- During the Crimean War carried horses for the Army and provisions for the Navy.
- 08.07.1856
- Called at Lisbon with severe weather damage.
- 1857
- Gross tonnage re-stated as 1,165 grt.
- 10.01.1857
- Towed Candia from Southampton to Liverpool.
- 12.1857
- Carried troops from the UK to Egypt during the Indian Mutiny.
- 03/11.1859
- New boilers and refit at Southampton.
- 11.1868
- Sold for £4,275 to Edward Bates, Liverpool. Her engines were removed and she was reduced to a sailing vessel by Laird & Co, Birkenhead, returning to service August 1869.
- 05.08.1874
- Destroyed by fire in position 34°44’S-11°54’W when on passage from North Shields to Aden with a cargo of coal. 23 crew members managed to reach St Helena in two of the ship’s boats. A further five were rescued by a Dutch vessel, having killed and eaten one of their number.