Sandbach Correspondence

Great Britain 1892.5.12 Cover 2x1d,½d ABERGELE to India 
- b/s SEA POST OFFICE/A 
- by ship "Shannon" according to vendor's research.
From P&O Heritage website:

"Career 06.10.1881: Launched. 31.12.1881: Registered. 05.01.1882: Left her builders as Shannon for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She was the first P&O ship with a hurricane deck and their last with an iron hull, she tended to lurch, a characteristic which P&O and Harland & Wolff disputed responsibility, and which was solved by filling her bilges with bricks – carefully loaded, she proved a good sea boat. She was supposed sister to the other River-class ships Clyde, Ganges, Sutlej and Thames, but was 3.05m (10ft) longer and had only two masts instead of three. 19.01.1882: Maiden voyage from London to Sydney, though in fact she spent more of her time on the Bombay run. 23.05.1884: Re-measured. 4,077 grt, 2,050 nrt, deadweight 3,899 tons. 163 first class and 58 second class passenger capacity. Cargo capacity 3,311 cubic metres (116,948 cubic feet). 1894: Yards removed. 23.01.1896: In collision with the powder hulk Thalia off Royal Albert Dock, London but without significant damage. Thalia was reported to have broken her moorings and ran aground above Tripcock Point. 1898: A case of plague was reported aboard. 1900: Was to have been sold, but the deal collapsed and she was laid up in Victoria Dock. 07.1901: Sold at auction for £10,706 to Essafji Tajbhoy Borah, Bombay, and reported renamed Procter. 12.1901: Sold to shipbreakers at Bombay. "


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