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This article is about the steamship launched in 1841. For the steamship launched in 1899, see
SS Trent .
RMS Trent was a British Royal Mail paddle steamer built in 1841 by William Pitcher of Northfleet for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company .[1] Thames , Medway and Isis .
Commander Edward C. Miller R.N. was appointed to take out the mails from Southampton on 1 March 1842.[2]
Trent served the transatlantic passenger route until she was requisitioned by the British government on the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854 for use as a troopship. She returned to her former civilian service in 1856.
Her interception by USS San Jacinto during the American Civil War in November 1861[3] Trent Affair , also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, which almost led to war between the United Kingdom and the United States .
Trent continued in service until 1865, when she was sold and subsequently scrapped.
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^ "West Indian Mails" London Evening Standard . England. 18 February 1842. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Seizure of the Confederate Commissioners on Board the Royal Mail West Indian Steamer, Trent" Reading Mercury . England. 30 November 1861. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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