BACKHOUSE, DIXON & COMPANY, MIDDLESBROUGH

Name SUNDA (launched unnamed, fitting out as COUNT SPENNECK)
Type Cargo
Yard Number  
Launched 01/10/1865
Completed 08/1866
Off. Number 54737
Engine builder T. Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool
Engine type 2 cyl. direct 1342ihp, compounded by Richardson in 1874
GRT 1682
Length (feet) 270
Beam (feet) 33.9
First owner Peninsular & Oriental S.N. Company, London (launched for builder's account on spec., sold while fitting out to Anglo Greek S.N. Co., London then resold to P. & O. on 27/03/1866)
   
History 1868 served as a troopship in the Abyssinian War
  1883 sold to the Sultan of Zanzibar
   
Fate 1885 reduced to a hulk at Zanzibar

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