Category:Mooltan (ship, 1860)

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English: Mooltan was a sail-steamer, built by the Thames Iron Ship Building Co, Blackwall, London for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She was launched in 1860 and completed in 1861. She had a clipper bow, single funnel, three masts rigged for sail and an iron hull. Her dimensions were 370 ft (112.7 m) x 39.1 ft (11.9 m). Her tonnages were 2,257 GRT and 1,628 NRT.

Humphreys & Tennant of Deptford built her engines. She was P&O's first compound steamship with a single screw. She was capable of 12 knots.
Later she had several owners. Re-built in 1884 in Liverpool as a four-masted barque for J. Pedley, Greenock and renamed Eleanor Margaret. 1888 sold to J.D. Bischoff, Bremen. Disappeared on voyage from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Valparaiso in 1891.
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