| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Robinson |
Greenock |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1856 Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt AG (HAPAG), Hamburg
1876 Mississippi & Dominion Steamship Co Ltd (Dominion Line), Liverpool - reg Liverpool |
| Vessel history |
Built for Hapag Transatlantic service
14/9/1855 delivered, but immediately requisitioned as Crimean War transport (No.33) to Balaklava
5/4/1856 returned to Portsmouth
6/6/1856 sailed on her first Hapag Transatlantic voyage from Hamburg
1871 refit by C A Day, Southampton, 2075grt 1320nrt
1876 on Dominion line service to Havana & New Orleans
3/1879 made one trooping voyage to South Africa, then returned to Dominion Line services |
| Remarks |
| 1875 1300grt 866nrt ? |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1879 |
Foundered 02/12/1879 |
| Disposal Detail |
| Liverpool and Corunna for Havana and New Orleans (131 passengers, general cargo, crew 55) when she sprang a leak during a heavy gale on the evening of 1/12/1879 west of Fayal. By morning it was clear she would founder so the boats were ordered out. However she sank in 33.42N/34.00W with the vast majority of the people still on board. Only 26 were rescued from three boats, 160 were drowned. |
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