Blackwall, London, UK
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The Tanjore was an iron screw steam brig, built for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Launched on April 13, 1865 by a ‘Miss Ford’, the niece of the Thames Iron Works’ Managing Director, the Tanjore ended her life sold to ship breakers in Bombay in 1894.
Ships such as the Tanjore were among the first post-Industrial Revolution vessels to be constructed with iron rather than wood, and to be propelled by steam rather than sail.
‘ARRIVAL AT MELBOURNE, OF THE TANJORE SS, WITH THE MAILS FOR JUNE.
The Tanjore, not the Nubia as expected, which this month brought the mails to Australia, was sighted off Cape Otway on Friday night. She arrived in Hobson’s Bay on Saturday, at 10:30 a.m., and immediately thereafter the Tasmanian portion of the mails was transferred on board the Derwent.’
The Mercury, August 27, 1872
