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Field name | Value |
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Title | The Steam Ship Oriental Captain John Soy. Extreme Length 230ft. Beam 61ft. Tonnage 1,676. Power 450 Horses |
Author | Kempe, N J; Physick, W |
Date | 1840 |
Document Type | Illustration |
Publisher Information | T. Physick, Manchester |
Reference | SP A52 |
Library / Archive | Liverpool Record Office |
Collection Name | Watercolour and Print Collection: Ship Portraits |
Description | At anchor in the Mersey off Liverpool. |
Biographical Note / History | Originally built as the "United States" and for the Transatlantic trade, but she was […] in order to permit the Peninsular Co. to […] their service from Gibraltar to Egypt, the […] tacking the Oriental in to their name. Wooden built by Messrs Wilson of Liverpool and considered a very big ship of her day. [...] the P&O directors were so pleased with her that [they] invited their friends for a cruise in the Cha[...] bein probably one of the very first examples [of] invitation cruise in this way. She was [...] 1858 and was put on the service between Suez and Gibraltar. Broken up in 1861. |
Theme(s) | Ships and Shipping Lines |
Ports | Liverpool, England |
Ships | SS Oriental |
Keywords | P&O, shipping |
Language | English |
Copyright | Liverpool Record Office |