| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton |
Glasgow |
31/08/1855 |
| Other names |
| 1856 BARCELONA |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
30/12/1855 Solá y Amat, Barcelona with Peter Denny and another retaining some shares
1856 Buenaventura Solá Amat y Compania (Línea Hispano Alemana), Barcelona - reg Barcelona
1857 Mata, Serra y Cía (Línea Hispano Alemana), Barcelona
1858 Compañía Hispano Alemana de Navegación por Vapor - mng Vidal Quadras Hermanos, Barcelona
2/1861 José M Albanés y Sunyer and Francisco Mas y Mestres (Albanes y Cia), Tarragona - reg Tarragona?
12/1861 M Lloret, Cadiz - reg Cadiz
1864 Ramon Herrera Sancibrian (Vapores Herrera), Cuba |
| Vessel history |
Built on spec
10/9/1855 loaded munitions cargo at Woolwich Arsenal for Crimea; 6/10/1855 arrived Kazatch Bay
27/6/1856 arrived Portsmouth from Balaklava
9/1856 on Barcelona-Hamburg service via Southampton
by1858 932grt 486nrt
9/1861 chartered by Spanish Government as transport for Morocco service; and by 1864 to Cuba.
1862 826grt 486nt
1864 on Havana-Mexico mail service |
| Remarks |
French Zouave regiments (from North Africa) served at Crimea
Listed in Denny List as KOUAVE and as ZOUAVE.
Apparently, Lloyd's did not pick up the change of ownership in 1855 and was still quoting Denny Brothers in 1860. |
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Fate / Status |
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| Disposal Detail |
| 28/12/1870 sailed Havana for Santiago de Cuba and St Thomas - rumoured taken by Cuban rebel armed steamer HORNET/CUBA, which had sailed from Colon, Panama on 31/12. Not confirmed. |
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