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THIBET (1874)
Service dates: 1874-1895
Official number: 70628
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 29.08.1874
- Launched.
- 01.10.1874
- Registered.
- 03.10.1874
- Ran trials and handed over as Thibet for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 12.10.1874
- Maiden voyage London/Bombay.
- 1875
- Employed as a transport during the expedition to relieve the Soudanese garrisons, carrying 1,500 officers and men from Suez to Souakim.
- 1876
- Re-registered in Dundee, UK.
- 28.01.1884
- Called at Plymouth to repair steering gear.
- 22.05.1884
- Re-measured. Passenger capacity now 53 first class and 24 second class. Cargo capacity 3,143 cubic metres (111,012 cubic feet).
- 1885
- Fitted with new boilers.
- 22.06.1887
- Hit a rock en route from Yokohama to Hong Kong. The pilot took a non-standard course but the Commander was reprimanded.
- 02.1890
- Converted at Bombay to a cargo liner for the Japan service. Cargo capacity 4,327 cubic metres (152,837 cubic feet).
- 04.1895
- Sold for £8,500 to Hajee Cassum Joosub, Bombay.
- 11.1896
- Renamed Cashmere.
- 08.1898
- Sold to shipbreakers at Bombay.