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MANILA (1892)
Service dates: 1892-1910
Official number: 99788
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 12.10.1892
- Launched.
- 28.11.1892
- Registered.
- 02.12.1892
- Ran trials and delivered as Manila for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 1895
- Transport No.9 for the Gold Coast campaign.
- 14.10.1897
- Carried mails from storm-damaged Kaiser-i-Hind in Hong Kong to Shanghai.
- 1900
- Troopship and prison ship during the Boer War.
- 1904
- Last P&O cargo sailing to Japan before the service was suspended because of the Russo-Japanese War.
- 01.1910
- Deadweight 5,834 tons. Draught 7.884m (25ft 10½in)
- 29.06.1910
- Sold for £5,758 to Fratelli Cerruti fu A., Italy for scrap, renamed Maria C and remained in service.
- 1913
- Sold to U Serra fu L, Italy.
- 1916
- Sold to Attilio Odero, Italy
- 1921
- Sold to Societa Italiana di Servizi Marittimi, Italy, but renamed Bracciano.
- 1923
- Sold to Societa di Navigazione Italia, Italy.
- 1925
- Sold to Italian shipbreakers.