Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Steamship Martaban


 Here's a nice drawing of the wooden screw steamship Martaban built for the British and Burmese Navigation Co. in 1873.

 It appears to have been renamed Olbia in 1893 when it was sold to a French company and was broken up in June of 1906 in Genoa. 

3 comments:

rats said...

The alliteration was too much for me. I had to look 'em up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Denny_and_Brothers

https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/east-india-company-bombay

Grant said...


Things were moving along swiftly in those days and it was only six years later, in 1879, that Denny's built the first two mild steel hulled steamships to be seen; the Rotomahana and the Te Anau for the Union Steam Ship Company in New Zealand. The hull of the Te Anau survives in a breakwater at Wanganui port and can be seen on Google Earth, a remarkable relic.

Mister G said...

Yes, I thought that ship had a unusually brief lifespan, but as you say, the technology was moving quickly.