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ZAMBESI (1873)
Service dates: 1873-1888
Official number: 68413
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 29.01.1873
- Launched.
- 12.05.1873
- Registered as Zambesi for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company after she was purchased on the stocks for £76,100.
- 29.05.1873
- Maiden voyage Southampton/Calcutta.
- 09.1874
- Towed Kashgar to Suez when she had propeller trouble in the Red Sea.
- 1875/1876
- Venice/Bombay service.
- 1876
- Re-registered in Glasgow, UK.
- 1879/1880
- Venice/Bombay service.
- 1880
- Bombay/Hong Kong service.
- 08.09.1882
- Employed as a transport during the Egyptian Campaign.
- 1885/1886
- Trooping Bombay/Suakin and Bombay Karachi.
- 23.03.1888
- Sold for £6,960 to FN Upton, Shanghai and registered at Kobe. Placed on the Portland (Oregon)/Yokohama/Hong Kong service.
- 02.1891
- Registered at Shanghai.
- 10.1892
- Sold to S Tulloch, Shanghai.
- 03.1893
- Sold to New Oriental Bank, Shanghai.
- 07.1893
- Sold to Ojiro Kisen Goshi Kaisha, Japan, and renamed Toyo Maru.
- 1911
- Sold to Japanese shipbreakers.