TAHER
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:11 pm
Built as a passenger- cargo liner under yard no 215 by Caird and Co., Greenock for the P&O.
22 May 1879 launched under the name ANCONA, named after the Italian town Ancona.
Tonnage 3.081 gross, 1.965 net., dim. 380.9 x 38.3 x 26.0ft.
Powered by a two cylinder compound inverted steam engine, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 3.202 ihp., speed 12 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 130 first and 54 second class.
Building cost £85.127.
01 August 1879 delivered to owners.
Built for the liner service between the U.K. and the Far East.
29 Sept. 1899 sold for £6.000 to Hajee Cassum Joosub at Bombay, renamed TAHER.
22 March 1901 on a charter voyage for the P&O from Aden to Mauritius and loaded with salt and general cargo by entering Port Louis, Mauritius, she wrecked, with the loss of 20 persons.
Mauritius 1984 1R sg683, scott?
Source: P&O a Fleet History. Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam by Charles Hocking.
22 May 1879 launched under the name ANCONA, named after the Italian town Ancona.
Tonnage 3.081 gross, 1.965 net., dim. 380.9 x 38.3 x 26.0ft.
Powered by a two cylinder compound inverted steam engine, manufactured by the shipbuilder, 3.202 ihp., speed 12 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 130 first and 54 second class.
Building cost £85.127.
01 August 1879 delivered to owners.
Built for the liner service between the U.K. and the Far East.
29 Sept. 1899 sold for £6.000 to Hajee Cassum Joosub at Bombay, renamed TAHER.
22 March 1901 on a charter voyage for the P&O from Aden to Mauritius and loaded with salt and general cargo by entering Port Louis, Mauritius, she wrecked, with the loss of 20 persons.
Mauritius 1984 1R sg683, scott?
Source: P&O a Fleet History. Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam by Charles Hocking.