HMS Euphrates

HMS Euphrates

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.

External links

* [http://www.electricscotland.com/hiStory/scotreg/bwatch/bw25.htm Personal description, Alnod Studd of 15th Hussars, 1876]
* [http://www.greenhowards.org.uk/gh-diaries/waterhouse-diary-9.htm Diary of voyage, J S Waterhouse, Green Howards, 1870 ]
* [http://www.garenewing.co.uk/angloafghanwar/articles/watson.php Image of three of the sister ships together ]
* [http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/navyships/indiantroopships/troopshipeuphrates.htm Naval Forces of the British Empire]
* [http://www.europicture.de/product_info.php/language/en/products_id/481890 HMS Euphrates leaving harbour, 1870 ]
* [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1417 Mid-Victorian RN Vessel]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9402E6DF173BEE33A2575AC0A9649C94639ED7CF Suez Canal collision ]
* [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8tah1UsceYkC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=Euphrates+troopship&source=web&ots=4jhEmGYqo-&sig=mEJQZART0KWLToxifwxorrkezrQ&hl=en Steel, Ships and Men: Cammell Laird and Company 1824-1993]
* [http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/E/01672.html Naval Database]


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