Titus

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This British Solomon Islands issue shows the arrival of the first resident commissioner, Charles Woodford, who set up his administration on the island of Tulagi in 1896. Tulagi remained the capital of the protectorate until the Second World War. Woodford arrived at Tula in the steamer Titus, of Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., Sydney. She was an iron, screw steamer of 760 gross tons, 569 under deck, 517 net, built in 1878 by Alexander Stephen and Sons, at Glasgow. The ship's dimensions were: length 185 ft. 8 in.; beam 27 ft. 1 in., and depth 14 ft. 6 in. The compound engines, had two cylinders, 24'A in. and 43 in. diameter, with 27 in. stroke. New boilers were fitted in the ship in 1889, and a new donkey boiler in 1892. She had an official nominal horse power of 80.
SG254 Sea Breezes 7/74

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Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 220 by A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow for G. Anderson, Hamburg, Germany.
06 February 1878 launched as the TITUS.
Tonnage 760 gross, 517 net, dim. 185.5 x 27.1 x 14.6ft.
One 2-cyl. compound steamengine 80nhp., speed?
1878 Completed.

1884 Sold to W.C.Walker in Melbourne.
August 1891 Sold to Cannifex & Arhurst.
August 1893 Sold to Orr & Fischer.
November 1893 Sold to Mrs. I. Walker & partners.
January 1896 sold to Burns, Philp & Co. Ltd., Sydney.
She was used by the company in the services from Australia to Thursday Island, Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, New Hebrides, Santa Cruz, Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands, the Gilbert & Ellice group, the Marshall and Wallis and Futuna.
1908 Hulked for the company for use at Vila, Vanuatu.
13 March 1919 after all usable parts were removed scuttled off that port.

Tuvalu 1984 10c sg235, scott?

Source: The Ships of Burns Philip and Company by Ronald Parsons.