HMS Crocodile

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HMS Crocodile was a Royal Navy troopship commissioned for the Indian Government and launched into the Thames from Wigrams of Blackwall Yard in 1867.

She was operated by the Royal Navy to transport up to 1,200 troops and family from Portsmouth to Bombay. This usually took 70 days. She was disposed of in 1894.

Crocodile was one of five sister ships, the others being HMS Jumna, HMS Serapis, HMS Euphrates, HMS Malabar.

She weighed 4,173 gross tonnes, with a single screw, a speed of 15 knots, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sail), 3 guns, and a white painted hull. Her bow was a "ram bow" and projected under water.

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• Emigration of Dockyard Workmen on the Crocodile, 1870 (image)
• Passenger List, June 1870 (Portsmouth)
• Mid-Victorian RN Vessel
• Painted image from 1872
• Image of HMS Crocodile and other of sister ships