SS ''Java'' was a British and French

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built in 1865 at

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by J. G. Thompson & Co. It served for the

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. One passenger, the musician Philo Adams Otis, noted: :''There were only four good ships of the Cunard Company in the Liverpool service in 1873:

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, Cuba, and Java. The two former were side-wheelers and were largely advertised as "carrying no steerage passengers". Among old travellers the two latter ships were respectively called the "rolling Cuba" and the "jumping Java," from certain peculiarities manifested by these ships in heavy weather, not especially conducive to the comfort of the passengers.'' In 1877, the ship was re-engined with compound engines by Fawcett, Preston & Co., Liverpool, and chartered to Warren Line, until it had been sold to

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one year later and renamed to SS ''Zeeland''. In 1889, it was sold to a French company and renamed the ''Electrique''. In 1892 it was sold again to J. Herron & Co of Liverpool and again renamed the ''Lord Spencer''. During an 1895 voyage from San Francisco to New York it went missing. One account claimed it collided with the fully rigged sailing ship ''Prince Oscar'' on 13 July and sunk shortly thereafter.

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