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DELHI (1864)
Service dates: 1864-1881
Official number: 48666
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 16.09.1863
- Launched. Named after the ancient capital of India (restored to that status in 1912).
- 23.01.1864
- Registered as Delhi for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Unusual horizontal compound engines with surface condensers and superheaters.
- 12.04.1864
- Maiden sailing Southampton/Alexandria.
- 15.12.1864
- Called at Lisbon with weather damage, sailing again 18th December.
- 08.07.1865
- Sent out to Calcutta for services to Suez and Hong Kong.
- 08.08.1868
- Machinery repairs in Bombay before returned to the UK and had new boilers fitted.
- 03.03.1869
- Southampton/Alexandria service.
- 02/06.1870
- Substantially altered at Southampton. Passenger accommodation increased to 26 first class, 45 second class.
- 14.07.1870
- The first P&O ship to pass eastwards through the Suez Canal, moving to the Bombay/Suez and Bombay/Hong Kong services
- 27.12.1874
- Took mails from Surat disabled at Port Said.
- 01.1876
- Laid up in Royal Albert Dock, London, and used as an accommodation ship for relief crews.
- 10.1881
- Sold for £5,350 to Robert Chambers, Glasgow.
- 1882
- Fitted with new two cylinder compound engine manufactured by Hutson and Corbett, Glasgow.
- 1883
- Sold to Raeburn and Verel, Glasgow.
- 1891
- Sold to Delhi Steam Ship Co Ltd (J D Pauling, manager), Glasgow.
- 1892
- Sold to R B Stoker, West Hartlepool.
- 1894
- Sold to T E Hawks, Newcastle.
- 1895
- Sold to G B Pas & Co, Holland, for demolition.