PS Ripon
{{other uses|Ripon (disambiguation)}}
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The PS Ripon was a paddlesteamer built at Money Wigram's Blackwall Yard in 1846 for P&O.
Operational history
On 12 October 1847, the maiden voyage of the Ripon to Malta and Alexandria was abandoned due to gale-force winds. The ship put into Torbay in order to repair damage it had sustained.
In 1850, Ripon brought Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal and his entourage to the UK, docking at the Port of Southampton on 25 May 1850.{{cite web|url=http://www.pandosnco.co.uk/navalservice.html|title=A tale of two cities in Jung Bahadur’s life and times|first=Subodh|last= Rana|access-date=17 August 2017}} A large collection of wild animals was also carried aboard the Ripon including the first hippopotamus seen in England since Roman times, which became known as the Regent's Park Hippo.{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/pointsofview/themes/beginnings/hippo/index.html|title=Regent's Park hippo|access-date=17 August 2017}}
The Ripon was requisitioned in 1854 for use in the Crimean War{{cite web|url=http://www.pandosnco.co.uk/navalservice.html|title=The Old Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company: On Their Majesty's Service|access-date=17 August 2017}} along with 11 other Peninsular and Oriental ships. In 1857, it was reported in Scientific American that the Ripon was to be fitted with a propeller.{{cite journal|url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Scientific_American_-_Series_1_-_Volume_012_-_Issue_35.pdf|first=O. D. J|last=Lunn|first2=S. H.|last2=Wales|first3=A. E.|last3=Beach|date=9 May 1857|title=Screw versus Paddle|page=278|journal=Scientific American|volume=12|issue=35|access-date=17 August 2017|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican05091857-278k}} In 1864 the PS Ripon brought Italian General Giuseppe Garibaldi to the United Kingdom for a meeting with Prime Minister Henry Palmerston. Three years later in 1870 the engines of the Ripon were sold and the vessel was converted into a brig for Caird & Company in Greenock.{{cite book|last=Robins|first=Nick|title=The Coming of the Comet: The Rise and Fall of the Paddle Steamer|page=27|year=2012|isbn=978 1-84832-134-2}}
In 1880, after serving as a hulk in Trinidad and Tobago, the Ripon was scuttled at sea near Port of Spain.
References
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External links
- {{cite journal|url=http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/50/2/140.full.pdf|journal=Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps|publisher=BMJ|title=A Voyage to China Overland|date=1928|doi=10.1136/jramc-50-02-10|pages=141–146|access-date=18 August 2017}}
::Includes an excerpt from a medic, Dr. W. Home, Staff Surgeon, 2nd Class, from 1848-1849 on the PS Ripon.
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Category:Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom