HMS Malabar

HMS Malabar (1866)

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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 - 30 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(27 April 1878) - 8 February 1879	Commanded by Captain Percy Patt Luxmoore until Luxmoore was superceded when Malabar touched the bottom in Whitsand Bay, near Plymouth.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
27 November 1883 - 5 May 1885	Commanded by Captain Robert Hastings Harris
12 August 1885 - 4 May 1886	Commanded by Captain Arthur Cecil Henry Paget
1 May 1901	Renamed Terror
*Extracts from the Times* newspaper**
Date	Extract
Fr 5 November 1875	Our Malta Correspondent writes under date October 26:— "Her Majesty’s training ship Cruiser, 4, Commander John Hext, was at Naples on the 22d inst. Mr. George H. Beaton, chief engineer of Her Majesty's dockyard at Malta, returned from Brindisi to-day by the Italian packet. Mr. Beaton was ordered by telegram from the Admiralty to proceed to Brindisi in the Serapis from Malta, the boilers and engines of which ship were fitted here with several improvements by Mr. Beaton, to prevent the violent priming which hindered her attaining proper speed. These fittings proved most successful, and the Serapis, on her passage from this to Brindisi, worked up to a speed of 13·4 knots, and averaged 12·2 knots all the way, without the slightest sign of priming. Her Majesty's Indian troopship Malabar, Capt. Edward Kelly, arrived at Malta from Portsmouth and Queenstown with troops on the 22d inst, and proceeded on her voyage to Bombay, viâ the Suez Canal, on the next day. Her Majesty's iron ship Hercules, l6, Capt. William Codrington (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir James R. Drummond, K.C.B.), and the iron ship Swiftsure, 14, Capt. John K.E. Baird, are expected here from the Piraeus on the 2d proximo, after calling at Zante and Corfu. At the latter port they will find the armour-plated turret-ship Devastation, Capt. Frederick W. Richards, which ship will return with the Commander-in-Chief to Malta.
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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