SS Patna

SS Patna

SS "Patna" is the name of the fictional ship in the novel "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad, originally published in "Blackwood's Magazine" from October 1899 to November 1900. Though never confirmed by the author the ship is based on the real ship SS|Jeddah. The fictional "Patna" used steam and sail in combination.

There was also a real steamship named SS "Patna" built by William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton, and launched Friday, 21 April 1871. She was a single screw passenger ship owned by British India Steam Navigation Company Glasgow & London and scrapped at Bombay in 1901. 1764 tons gross. Length: 298 feet, beam: 33 feet. Whether or not Joseph Conrad partially based his fictional "Patna" on this ship or not is unknown.

Allusions/references from other works

Jim's ill-fated ship, the "Patna" is also mentioned in Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Immortal." (NB. Patna becomes Patria with a bit of paint peeled from the "n")

In the Alien 3 novelization by Alan Dean Foster, The "rescue" ship that Bishop II arrives in is called the "Patna".

External links

*gutenberg|no=5658|name=Lord Jim.
* [http://www.ninagalen.com/Shorts/Conrad/conrad.pdf "Stephen Crane as a Source for Conrad's Jim"] , Nina Galen, "Nineteenth-Century Fiction", vol. 38, no. 1 (1983).
*http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=10431


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