Sister of the Egyptian she was launched on 19th November 1861 and delivered for the Mediterranean and Black Sea services in the following December.

 

The Dalmation was a  1,989-ton, Bibby Line vessel which was lost during a storm on the 26th of November 1872. Was outward bound from Liverpool, heading for Trieste when it ran into bad weather. Some reports say that it foundered near Bardsey Island, but others show it ashore at Hells Mouth.

 

Lloyds List  29th November 1872. A quantity of timber has washed ashore near Hell's Mouth. Also 3 or 4 hatches, like steamer hatches, some pieces of oars with the letters TSDL, cabin doors and pieces of new packing cases with the following marks Quire & Co.

 

Lloyds List  30th November 1872.  The beach from Hell's Mouth round to about two miles east of Abersoch is strewn with sides of bacon, hams and tallow. One cask of tallow is marked on one end 'Trist' in painted letters. A brass plate with Harland & Wolff, Iron Shipbuilders and Engineers, Belfast 1862 and the end of a drawer with S.S. Dalmatian on it was washed ashore near Hells Mouth.