Lady Mary Wood (Paddle Steamer) 1842

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Built in 1842 by Thomas Wilson & Co., Liverpool. Gt; 533, Diamensions; 160'8 x 25'5 x 16'6. A two cylender, 250 ihp (60 1/4" diam. X 66" stroke) steam engine, built by Fawcet Preston & Co., Liverpool, and paddle wheels gave her a speed of 12 knots. She had a wooden hull, carried 200 tons of cargo, 60 first class and 50 third class passengers.

She was launched 16 September 1841 and delivered 19 January 1842, she entered the Mediterranean service. In 1845 she was placed in the Ceylon-Singapore-Hong Kong service. When a rebellion broke out in Ceylon in 1848, Lady Mary Wood brought troops from Madras to put down the revolt, thus becoming the first steam-propelled troopship. In 1850 she attempted a Hong Kong-Shanghai service, but high customs duties at Shanghai, rigged by local merchants, forced discontinuance. She was sold in 1859 to the Indo-Netherlands Company for service between the East Indies and China.

Singapore, 1980, S.G.?, Scott, 348.

Source:Watercraft Philately

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Built for the P&O in Liverpool.
Sold to E.C. Wermuth, C.S. van Heeckeren & Co., Samarang, Dutch East Indies.
03 February 1859 sailed from Hong Kong for Samarang where she was renamed OENARANG.
1862 Sold to W.C. de Vries, Batavia.
February 1866 her engines removed and reduced to hulk,
1867 Broken up at Batavia.

Source P&Q A Fleet History, World Ship Socity.

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Gibraltar 2020, £1.66, StG.?