For other ships with the same name, see Carnatic (ship).
SS Carnatic
History
United Kingdom
Name
SS Carnatic
Operator
Peninsula & Orient Steam Navigation Company
Builder
Samuda Brothers, Cubitt Town, London
Laid down
30 January 1862
Launched
6 December 1862
Completed
25 April 1863
Fate
Wrecked, 12 September 1869
General characteristics
Type
Steam ship
Tonnage
1,776 GRT
Length
89.4 m (293 ft 4 in)
Beam
11.6 m (38 ft 1 in)
Draught
7.8 m (25 ft 7 in)
Propulsion
Humphrys, Tennant and Dykes 4-cylinder compound inverted steam engine, 2,442 hp (1,821 kW), single shaft
Sail plan
Brig[1]
Speed
12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Capacity
250 passengers[citation needed]
Notes
31 persons lost in the shipwreck
SS Carnatic was a British steamship built in 1862-63 by Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs, London, for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). She operated on the Suez to Bombay run in the last years before the Suez Canal was opened. This route gave a fast, steamship-operated route from Britain to India, connecting with similar steamships running through the Mediterranean to Alexandria, with an overland crossing to Suez. The alternative was to sail round the Cape of Good Hope, a distance at which steam ships were not, in the early 1860s, sufficiently economical to be commercially competitive with sail.
As one of the first British steamships to use a compound engine, Carnatic achieved a much better fuel economy (at 2lbs of coal per indicated horsepower-hour) than most other contemporary steamers. P&O had a number of compound-engined ships built in the first half of the 1860s: Poonah (1863), Golconda (1863) and Baronda (1864).[2]: 170
In 1869, she ran aground on a coral reef in the Red Sea and broke apart the following morning, with the loss of 31 lives. Her wreck was rediscovered in 1984 and is now a popular scuba diving site.
^"The Loss of the Carnatic". London Evening Standard. 24 November 1869. p. 2. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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