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| Launched 1853: ss EMEU |
ss EMEU
built by Robert Napier Govan,
Yard No 54 Engines by Shipbuilders
Last Name: WINCHESTER (1876)
Propulsion: Two cylinder beam geared steam engine, 300nhp, single screw, 12 knots
Launched: Monday, 22/08/1853
Built: 1854
Ship Type: Passenger Liner, Iron hull
Tonnage: 1538 gross; 908 net
Length: 266ft 4in
Breadth: 36ft 7in
Owner History:
Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Company
Status: Sunk - 14/07/1880
Remarks:
1852: One of five ships ordered for the short~lived Australasian Pacific Mail
Steam Packet Company, which planned a monthly Panama/Tahiti/
Wellington/Sydney service.
22/08/1853: Launched.
07/02/1854: Arrived at Southampton from the builders whereupon her owners’
services were abandoned. She was then chartered to the Admiralty
for Crimean War transport work at the rate of £100 per day.
11/1854: Sold to British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
(Cunard Line), Liverpool. Continued on Crimea War service as
Transport No 74.
06/1857: Chartered to European and Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
which had taken over mail services to Australia from P&O, to replace
their ONEIDA on the Suez/Sydney leg of the route.
30/10/1858: Purchased by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
02/1859: Delivered at Sydney and put on Sydney/Mauritius/Suez route.
1860: Bombay/Hong Kong service.
05/11/1873: Sold for £6,509 at auction to William McArthur, London.
03/1875: Sold to John Smith, Millwall.
24/06/1875: Sold to M B Pearson, London.
28/06/1875: Sold to G Crowshaw, London.
08/1876: Resold to William McArthur, reduced to a sailing vessel and
renamed WINCHESTER.
08/1879: Sold to G Crowshaw and Co, London.
14/07/1880: Lost in the Macassar Strait when on a voyage from Manila to
Montreal with a cargo of sugar.
Previous update by Paul Strathdee
Previous update by John Newth
Last updated: by George Robinson from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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