Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 59

Name:

 GANGES

Year:

 1850

Description:

 Paddle Steamer

Webpage:

 Webpage, P & O

Picture:

 

Tonnage:

 975

Length:

 235.3

Width:

 29.4

H.P.:

 470 later 1,162²

Type:

 Iron. 2 Direct acting engines, 11psi.²

Customer:

 P. & O.

Fate:

 Scrapped 1871

Points of Note:

 

Date of Launch:

 

Notes:

          Set up a Southampton - Malta record of 8 days 4 hours on her maiden voyage. in 1867 she was "sold China".

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

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