Completed April 1863; Official No. 45959; Code Letters VGLT.
Owners: British India SN Co, Glasgow.
Masters: 1863-64 G Greig; 1864 William Taylor Salmon (C.N.10908 London 1854).
With 27 Europeans & about 120 natives on board Persia foundered in a hurricane at the mouth of the river off Sandheads, near Calcutta on Wednesday, 5 October 1864. The India SS Co steamer Orissa picked up two lascars who were the only survivors.
Lives lost October 1864: Brown, Mrs & infant; Browne, FW; Caulfield, Captain; Clough, Mr FF; Davis, Sergeant; Davis, Mrs & three children; Ford, Dr; Forsythe, Captain; French, Miss; Hyde, Mr H; Kelly, Mrs; Kerridge, Mr; McKellar, Major; O’Rourke, Lieutenant; Salmon, William Taylor, master; Savage, Mr RT; Schmidt, Mr; Todd, Mr JC.
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