Timandra (ship)

Last updated March 07, 2019

A number of ships have been named Timandra for the mythological Timandra:

In Greek mythology, Timandra was a Spartan princess as one of the daughters of King Tyndareus and Leda, daughter of King Thestius of Pleuron, Aetolia. She was the (half-)sister of the divine twins, Castor and Pollux, Helen, Clytemnestra, Phoebe and Philonoe. Timandra married Echemus, the king of Arcadia, and with him had a son named Ladocus. Like Helen and Clytemnestra, she was also unfaithful and deserted Echemus for Phyleus, the king of Dulichium.

Timandra (1814 ship) was launched in 1814. She started trading with India and made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was lost off the Lofoten Islands in 1822.
Timandra (1822 ship) was launched in 1822 at Whitby. She sailed to India and South East Asia until she disappeared in June 1829 after leaving Batavia with a cargo of rice for Antwerp.
Timandra (1841 ship) was built at Littlehampton and in 1841–42 carried immigrants to New Zealand for the New Zealand Company; Lloyd's Register for 1869 carries the notation "Wrecked" under her name.^[1]
Timandra (1843 ship) was launched at Sunderland. In October 1858 she was sailing from Newcastle to Rockhampton with 105 passengers when she wrecked on Timandra Bank, Keppel Bay.
Timandra (1885 ship), a merchant ship of 1562GRT, was built by Robert Duncan & Co., Glasgow. She was a fully rigged sailing ship and disappeared in March 1917 after having left Norfolk with a cargo of coal for Buenos Aires.

Timandra was launched in 1814. She started trading with India and made one voyage for the British East India Company (EIC) before she was lost off the Lofoten Islands in 1822.

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, Company Bahadur, or simply The Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with Mughal India and the East Indies, and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia, and colonised Hong Kong after a war with Qing China.

Lofoten archipelago and traditional district in Nordland county, Norway

Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Lofoten is known for a distinctive scenery with dramatic mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude.

The following steamships were operated by A. Kirsten:

SS Timandra (1898), to Kaiserliche Marine in 1914
SS Timandra (1912), purchased 1939, seized by the United Kingdom in 1945
SS Timandra (1951), sold in 1971

Citations

↑ Lloyd's Register (1869), №276.

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[1] Lloyd's Register (1869), №276.