NO IMAGE AVAILABLE

PERSIA

PERSIA WAS A VESSEL OF 800 TONS.

IN 1852  UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN BROADFOOT SHE SAILED FROM LONDON ARRIVING IN WELLINGTON ON 24TH JULY.

IN 1860 SHE SAILED FOR LYTLLETON UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN SMITH ARRIVING 17TH SEPTEMBER AFTER  HAVING HAD A ROUGH PASSAGE OF 139 DAYS . PROBABLY THIS WAS THE SHAW SAVILL CHARTER

PERSIA

PERSIA WAS A WOOD SHIP OF 1,684 / 1,759 TONS BUILT IN QUEBEC AND OWNED BY G DUNCAN. SHE HAD BEEN REGISTERED IN LONDON.

HER MASTERS WERE CAPTAIN J H SMITH THEN FOLLOWED BY CAPTAIN W ELLISON.

SHE MADE A VOYAGE FROM LONDON 1ST MAY 1860 AND ARRIVED IN AUCKLAND ON 17TH SEPTEMBER 1860

THIS IS PROBABLY THE SAME VESSEL AS THE ABOVE BASED ON THE SHIPS CAPTAIN BEING CAPTAIN SMITH - THOU IT WOULD HAVE PUT HER IN AUCKLAND AND LYTLLETON ON THE SAME DAY IN 1860 AND THERE IS A DISCREPANCY IN THE YEAR OF BUILD AND THE SHIPS TONNAGE

PERSIA 

PERSIA A PADDLE STEAMER VESSEL OF 1,200 TONS BUILT BY ROBERET NAPIER & SONS OF GLASGOW.SHE WAS CAPABLE OF DOING 16 KNOTS.SHE HAD ACCOMADATION FOR 260 PASSENGERS, AND ACCOMADTION FOR UP TO 120 CREW. SHE WAS OWNED BY CUNARD.HER LAST CROSSING OF THE ATLANTIC WAS IN 1867 AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR SHE WAS SOLD, HER ENGINES REMOVED AND SHE WAS THEN  LAID UP FOR 4 YEARS AND THEN SOLD FOR SCRAP, FINALLY BEING BROKEN UP ON THE THAMES IN 1872

THERE WERE SEVERAL VESSEL CALLED 'PERSIA'

A BRITISH PADDLE STEAMER SHOWN ABOVE 1856 - 1868 ( SCRAPPED 1871 )

SS PERSIA A BRITISH CARGO/LINER 1883 - 1920

SS PERSIA, HAMBURG AMERICA LINE, BUILT BY HARLAND WOLFF 1894 - 1898

SS PERSIA A BRITISH LINER 1900 - 1915

PERSIA AN ITALIAN VESSEL

SS PERSIA FORMERLY WHITE STAR LINE'S SS COPTIC 1906 - 1915