CHIMBORAZO

Ship Details

Rig

Iron Screw Steamer, 550 nhp.

Built

1871

Built In

Glasgow

Tonnage

3,847g 2,443n

Built By

J.Elder & Co.

Dimensions

384.0 x 41.3 x 35.3

Demise

Pacific Steam Navigation Co., reg. Liverpool. 1877: Chartered to Orient Steam Navigation Co.Ltd., as Orient-Pacific Line. 1878: Orient Steam Navigation Co.Ltd. 1887 May: Final voyage to Australia. 1889: Cruise ship to the Norwegian Fjords. 1894: P.J.Pitcher, reg. Liverpool. Used for cruising by the Polytechnic Touring Association. 1895: Ocean Cruising & Yachting Co. 1897 Broken up at Preston.

Description

Three masted iron barque

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Thomas Conlon (not verified) on Tue, 2018-08-07 19:24
I am interested in my granduncle Peter Conlon who sailed from Plymouth on the SS Chimborazo on Jan 25th 1878,arriving in Melbourne on March 9th. He was a successful business man in the Rocky Mount (Clarence) area.

John McLaren (not verified) on Mon, 2019-09-09 06:06
I own an original oil painting of this SS Chimborazo. I inherited it from my Grandmother. Her uncle was the Captain of the ship.

Richard luxford (not verified) on Sat, 2020-06-06 17:48
This ship brought the first Brigidine nuns to Australia to set up schools

CLU (not verified) on Sat, 2020-07-18 04:29
Eleanor Victoria Tindall, daughter of Rev. Robert Tindall and Eliza Moss, arrived in Melbourne on board the Chimborazo on the 12th March 1878.

William Hahn (not verified) on Sun, 2021-01-03 16:33
My Great great Uncles Thomas Stephenson(24) and his brother William Stephenson(28) with wife Sarah(23) (Dixon) Stephenson arrived in Sydney 27-9-1879 aboard the Chimborazo.

Kerrie klaack (not verified) on Wed, 2021-07-07 08:54
My great grandparents Isaac Pryor and Elizabeth Pryor came to Australia on this ship in 1885 with 4 children and settled in Minmi and had another 10 children.

john Andrewartha (not verified) on Thu, 2022-02-24 13:38
Readers - you may be interested in this Link = Chimborazo 1871 - Ship Tree = from : https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Chimborazo_1871_-_Ship_Tree cheers -

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