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| Name | Malabar (1866) | Explanation | |
| Type | Troopship | ||
| Launched | 8 December 1866 | ||
| Hull | Iron | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 4189 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 3 | ||
| Fate | 1918 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | ADM 135/297 | ||
| Note | 1897 base ship. 1901 = Terror | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 22 March 1867 - 13 February 1870 | Commanded by Captain Frederic Dampier Rich | ||
| 14 February 1870 - 21 August 1872 | Commanded by Captain Sholto Douglas | ||
| (25 August 1872) - 14 September 1864 | Commanded by Captain Thomas Baker Martin Sulivan | ||
| 10 September 1874 - 26 October 1874 | Commanded by Captain Edward Thomas Nott (until Nott died) | ||
| 30 October 1874 - 11 January 1878 | Commanded by Captain Edward Kelly | ||
| (27 April 1878) - 8 February 1879 | Commanded by Captain Percy Patt Luxmoore until Luxmoore was superceded when Malabar touched the bottom in Whitsand Bay, near Plymouth. | ||
| 8 February 1879 | Commanded by Captain John Frederick George Grant | ||
| 5 August 1885 | Commanded by Captain Arthur Cecil Henry Paget | ||
| 1 May 1901 | Renamed Terror | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Ma 9 August 1880 | The Himalaya, Captain Brent, which arrived at Portsmouth on Friday from India and the Mediterranean, disembarked on Saturday the troops which she brought from Malta and the old crew of the Ruby, which was paid off and re-commissioned at Bombay. The troops consisted of 110 invalids, time-expired men, and insane for Netley, four men for Woolwich, five Royal Engineers for Chatham and Aldershot, and three others, besides a number of women and children. There were no military officers passengers. The Himalaya was to have proceeded to Devonport on Saturday afternoon to have her defects made good and to be got ready for immediate transport service, but her departure, in consequence of the gale, was delayed until yesterday morning. The repairs to be made to her hull and machinery are very slight indeed, and she is ordered to return to Portsmouth on the evening of the 13th to embark reinforcements for India on the 17th — the day after the date fixed for the sailing of the Malabar. It is not known what troops she will embark, but Surgeons-Major Macbeth and Alexander, of the Army Medical Department, have been warned that they will have to take passage out in her. | ||
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