Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 65

Name:

 BOMBAY

Year:

 1852

Description:

 Steamship

Webpage:

 P & O

Picture:

 

Tonnage:

 1,229

Length:

 232.9

Width:

 31.6

H.P.:

 275

Type:

 Iron. Two beam engines with gearing, 10psi.²

Customer:

 P. & O.

Fate:

 Kwok Acheong, Hong Kong. 1880 destroyed by fire.

Points of Note:

 

Date of Launch:

 

Notes:

          80 First Class. Madras and Bombay are historically important as the earliest screw steamers ordered for any mail service and were built to City of Glasgow principles. They started in the Southampton-Istanbul, but were soon designated for the short-lived Singapore-Sydney service. Both settled down eventually in the Suez-Bombay and afterwards moved further east.

 

          Bombay collided with the United States corvette Oneida, which sank with the loss od 120 lives, in Yokohama, Japan on 24th January 1870. In 1878 Bombay was "sold China" (Kwok Acheong, Hong Kong. 1880 destroyed by fire).

[Edward Finch]

[British Passenger Lines of the Five Oceans, Commander C.R. Vernon Gibbs]

 

          In 1853 the Directors reported that, in consequence of a Memorial resulting from a public meeting at Melbourne asking for an improved service, the Chusan and Shanghai were being replaced by the Bombay and the Madras.²

² [One Hundred Year History of the P. & O., Boyd Cable]