Cheduba (1863)

Career (UK)
Name: SS Cheduba
Owner: British India Steam Navigation Company Glasgow
Builder:
  • A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow, Scotland (Yard No 3) and/or
  • Archibald Denny, Dumbarton (Yard No 27)
Launched: Wednesday, 8 April 1863
Fate: Sunk on 15 May 1869.
General characteristics
Type: Steamship
Tonnage: 667 grt
Length: 209.1 feet
Beam: 26.3 feet
Installed power: 140nhp
Propulsion: Steam 2cyl
Speed: 9 knots

The SS Cheduba was the third ship built at A and J Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow with Yard No 3.[1] She was probably built in collaboration with Archibald Denny Dumbarton under their Yard No 27 and launched on Saturday, 18 April 1863.[2]

Cheduba was owned by British India Steam Navigation Company Glasgow. She was lost with all hands in Bay of Bengal on her passage from Calcutta to Rangoon and sunk on 15 May 1869.

References

  1. ^ Paul Strathdee and Stuart Cameron:Cheduba (1863) of A and J Inglis
  2. ^ George Robinson and Stuart Cameron: Launched 1863: SS Cheduba of Archibald Denny Dumbarton.