HMS Crocodile

HMS Crocodile

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.

External links

* [http://www.theshipslist.com/accounts/crocodile.html Emigration of Dockyard Workmen on the Crocodile, 1870 (image) ]
* [http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/Crocodile1.htm Passenger List, June 1870 (Portsmouth)]
* [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1295 Mid-Victorian RN Vessel]
* [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/prints/viewPrint.cfm?ID=PAD6240 Painted image from 1872]
* [http://www.barnardf.demon.co.uk/pictures/jumna.htm Image of HMS Crocodile and other of sister ships ]


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