Tod & Macgregor Shiplist

 

Yard No.:

 71

Name:

 NORNA

Year:

 1853

Description:

 Steamship

Webpage:

 P & O

Picture:

 

Tonnage:

 996

Length:

 240.9

Width:

 29.3

H.P.:

 230 later 624²

Type:

 Iron. 2 Steeple geared engines, 11psi²

Customer:

 P. & O.

Fate:

 Scrapped 1882¹

Points of Note:

 

Date of Launch:

 

Notes:

          The P. & O. fleet list of 1854 gives the Madras and the Norna on the Singapore-Australia service.²

¹ [www.clydebuiltships.co.uk]

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

          Used mostly Bombay - Hong Kong service, Crimean War trooped between Bombay and Suez, 1861-1866 Suez - Mauritius, 1871 sold to Kwok Acheong, Hong Kong.

[Edward Finch]