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PRECURSOR (1841)
Service dates: 1844-1869
Official number: 30711
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 20.10.1841
- Launched as Precursor for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company.
- 11.06.1844
- Bought by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for £45,000.
- 13.06.1844
- Registered.
- 10.09.1844
- Sailed from Southampton via various ports to Calcutta.
- 23.10.1851
- Cables parted during a cyclone, drifted ashore off Cowcolly.
- 24.10.1851
- Refloated and returned to Calcutta.
- 02.11.1856/24.06.1857
- Trooping Bombay/Persian Gulf.
- 1857
- Gross tonnage re-stated as 1,817 grt.
- 03.1858
- Reduced to a hulk at Suez and employed as a store and receiving ship.
- 12.1869
- Sold to shipbreakers at Suez.