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ps CANTON
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ps CANTON
built by Tod & McGregor Glasgow,
Yard No 49 Engines by Shipbuilders
Propulsion: Two cylinder side~lever steam engines, 150ihp, driving paddles, 8 knots
Launched: Thursday, 23/03/1848
Built: 1848
Ship Type: Iron Passenger Steamer
Ship's Role: Hong Kong/Canton and Macao branch service
Tonnage: 348 gross; 218 net
Length: 172ft 8in
Breadth: 21ft 5in
Owner History:
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Status: Wrecked - 05/10/1859
Remarks:
28/03/1848: Launched for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co, London.
26/05/1848: Delivered. Costing £14000, she was armed for defence against Cantonese River pirates with two 32~pounder shell~firing guns, 30 muskets, 30 cutlasses and 30 pairs of pistols; her crew included ex~Naval gunners.
09/06/1848: Registered.
25/06/1848: Left Southampton but collided with brig JOHN WOODHALL off the Isle of Wight and put back to port with damage forward.
04/07/1848: Sailed again via the Cape, Simons Bay, Mauritius, Galle and
Singapore.
19/02/1849: Arrived in Hong Kong. There was no mail contract for the branch
service to Canton, but Hong Kong merchants made arrangements
with the P&O agent in Hong Kong for CANTON to be used for mails.
29/09/1849: Sighted the sailing brig HMS COLUMBINE becalmed while in action
against pirate junks, the latter escaping by use of sweeps. CANTON
towed the warship within range of the enemy, whose craft were
quickly sunk or surrendered, and carried Naval casualties back to
Hong Kong for treatment the next day. In the same year she was
chartered under a Naval lieutenant by local merchants to search for
a number of ships thought to have been pirated, a mission blessed
with some success.
1856: Ran aground on an uncharted rock, remaining aground for 8 weeks
before being salvaged and repaired “at moderate expense”.
09/1856 to 01/1857:
Replaced in service by the chartered steamer SIR CHARLES FORBES.
05/10/1859: Driven ashore at Macao during a typhoon and became a total loss. Though all aboard were saved the wreck broke in two and was abandoned. The financial loss was not small; since the war in China her trading results had been poor and she was in poor repair, and P&O’s Hong Kong agents had already been told to look for a buyer.
Previous update by Paul Strathdee
Photo supplied by P&O shows Canton towing HMS Columbine into action against pirate junks
Last updated: by John Newth from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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