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NORTHAM (1858)
Service dates: 1858-1868
Official number: 21595
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 31.03.1858
- Launched.
- 11.06.1858
- Registered.
- 14.06.1858
- Ran trials and delivered as Northam for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Her name is from the suburb of Southampton in which she was built.
- 20.06.1858
- Maiden voyage Southampton/Alexandria.
- 01.11.1858
- Left Southampton via St Vincent and Mauritius to Bombay arriving 07th January 1859.
- 1859
- One voyage Suez/Mauritius/Sydney.
- 20.08.1859
- Stranded for 5 days on Shab-Barger reef opposite Jeddah and initially considered a total loss.
- 25.08.1859
- Refloated.
- 06.1860
- Mechanical breakdown. Mails forwarded to Suez by Benares.
- 02.1861
- Galle/Melbourne/Sydney service.
- 12.1865
- Bombay/Suez and Bombay/Hong Kong services before coming back via the Cape to Le Havre arriving 09th September 1867.
- 12.1868
- Sold to C A Day & Co in part payment for the new Hindostan.
- 01.1869
- Sold to Union Steam Ship Co Ltd, Southampton for the South African mail service.
- 09.1876
- Sold to Sir James Malcolm, Liverpool and reduced to a sailing ship. Renamed Stars and Stripes.
- 21.12.1878
- Destroyed by fire in the South Atlantic in 09°40’S-31°36’W when on a voyage from London to Sydney.