Category:Darling Downs (ship, 1852)

Ship

• Type: Barque rigged screw steamer, converted to sail
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• Built by: C.J. Mare & Co, Blackwall
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• Date of completion: 1852
• Length over all: 78.8 m
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• Beam: 12.2 m
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• GRT: at various times as 2,080, 2,242, 2,428, 1634 and 1,715 tons.
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• Main engine: Steam, by Maudsley, Sons & Field 300 horse-power engine. But converted from steam to sail
• Speed: 10.5 kn
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History

• 1852 Named: Calcutta for the General Screw Steamship Company Services to the Mediterranean, India, Australia and the USA Flag: United Kingdom
• 1854 Made a single round voyage between Southampton, Port Phillip and Sydney
• 1857 Transferred to the South America service
• 1859 Sold to the Anglo-Luso-Brazilian Royal Mail Steam Nav. Co., Renamed: Portugal Employed on the Milford Haven(later Liverpool) - Lisbon - South America service. Flag: Portugal
• 1861 Sold, Renamed: Calcutta. Engines removed and re-rigged as a ship (square rigged on each mast).
• Sold to Taylor, Sons & Co (formerly Taylor, Bethell & Roberts), London. Renamed: Darling Downs
• 12.05.1887 Collision near the Nore lightship and sank.