Completed February 1866; Official No. 54638; Code Letters KPVN.
Owners: 1866 George Duncan & Co, London.
Masters: 1866-70 J Mather; 1871-77 JH Kennedy; 1877 Bastard; 1879-87 J Adamson; 1887-90 Edward Daniel Alston (C.N.26521 London 1865).
Miscellaneous: August 1871 she picked up the crew of the abandoned steamer TW Rhodes; 29 June 1872 at Ilford Court Richard Hooper, steward aged 54, was charged with smuggling tea, tobacco & cigars. He was searched as he left the ship when it was moored at Victoria Docks. The charge of smuggling tea was withdrawn but the value of the tobacco & cigars was £1.15s.7d & he was ordered to pay three times that or be imprisoned for one month.
Voyages: June 1877 Dundee for Cardiff; 19 January 1882 arrived at Auckland, New Zealand with 540 passengers; June 1883 put into Table Bay partially dismasted; February 1888 London for Melbourne.
The Roman Empire left Liverpool on 29 July 1890 bound for Mollendo, Peru with a cargo of coal, a crew of 32 & the wife of the master. Last spoken to in August she was not heard of again. She was posted as missing by Lloyds on 12 March 1891.
Lives lost 1890:
Aitken, James, able seaman, Lanark
Alston, Edward Daniel, master, b.1842, Great Bromley, Essex
Alston, Grace Charlotte Francis, b.1853 (wife of master)
Anderson, A, able seaman, Stockholm
Collyer, JR, 2nd officer, London
Dawson, W, able seaman, London
Donavan, J, able seaman, Dublin
Donnelly, Michael, able seaman Queenstown
Jones, William, able seaman, Cornwall
McDonoyl, A, able seaman, Liverpool
Fledberg, FJ, able seaman, Stockholm
McGuinness, W, able seaman, Baltimore
Norris, H, ordinary seaman, Birkenhead
Henricksen, H, able seaman, Norway
Hind, John, able seaman, New Zealand
Hutton, William, sailmaker & able seaman, Fife
Lorimer, Peter, 1st officer, Edinburgh
Mackie, D, able seaman, Dundee
Martin, George, carpenter, Montrose
McLeod, John, donkeyman, Aberdeen
Olman, Henry, boatswain, Greenock
Parker, John, sailmaker, Fife
Reeves, John, cook Jersey
Rourke, Thomas, able seaman, Drogheda
Stark, Charles, able seaman, Stockholm
Stewart, John A, 3rd officer, Edinburgh
Thompson, JW, able seaman, Liverpool
Wheeler, Charles A, steward, Jersey
Apprentices:
Candler, FW
Ferris, Arthur Henry, 15, Nottingham
La Trobe, Cecil H
McNulty, WH
Nash, EJ
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