Cheduba (1863)

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History
United Kingdom
Name: Cheduba
Owner: British India Steam Navigation Company Glasgow
Builder:
  • A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Archibald Denny, Dumbarton
Yard number:
  • 3 (Inglis)
  • 27 (Denny)
Launched: Wednesday, 8 April 1863
Fate: Sunk on 15 May 1869.
General characteristics [1][2]
Type: Steamship
Tonnage: 667 GRT
Length: 209.1 ft (63.7 m)
Beam: 26.3 ft (8.0 m)
Installed power: 140 nhp
Propulsion: 2-cylinder steam engine
Speed: 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)

The SS Cheduba was the third ship built at A and J Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow.[3] She was probably built in collaboration with Archibald Denny Dumbarton and launched on Saturday, 18 April 1863.[4]

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

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