HMS Euphrates
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HMS Euphrates was a Royal Navy troopship commissioned for the Indian Government and launched in the River Mersey on 24 November 1866 by Laird Brothers of Birkenhead.
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.
On February 8th 1892, she collided with the German steamer Gutenfels in the Suez Canal. The steamer fared considerably worse.
She was disposed of in 1894.
Euphrates was one of five sister ships, the others being HMS Crocodile, HMS Jumna, HMS Serapis, and HMS Malabar.
She weighed 6,211 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.
[edit] External links
- Personal description, Alnod Studd of 15th Hussars, 1876
- Diary of voyage, J S Waterhouse, Green Howards, 1870
- Image of three of the sister ships together
- Naval Forces of the British Empire
- HMS Euphrates leaving harbour, 1870
- Mid-Victorian RN Vessel
- Suez Canal collision
- Steel, Ships and Men: Cammell Laird and Company 1824-1993
- Naval Database
