HMS Malabar was a Euphrates-class

Euphrates class troopship

The Euphrates class was a five-ship class of iron screw troopships built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. They were used for carrying troops to India, with two of them being later hulked and surviving into the early 20th Century.-Design:...

 troopship launched in 1866, and the fifth ship of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 to employ the name. She was designed to carry troops between the United Kingdom and British India, and was employed in that role for most of her life. She became the base ship in Bermuda in 1897, was renamed HMS Terror in 1901 and was sold in 1918. Her name was later used for part of the Royal Dockyard in Bermuda.

Design

Malabar was one of five iron-hulled vessels of the Euphrates class

Euphrates class troopship

The Euphrates class was a five-ship class of iron screw troopships built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. They were used for carrying troops to India, with two of them being later hulked and surviving into the early 20th Century.-Design:...

. All five were built to a design of 360 ft overall length by about 49 ft breadth, although Malabar was very slightly smaller than the rest of the class. They had a single screw, a speed of 14 knots, one funnel, a barque-rig

Barque

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 sail plan, three 4-pounder guns, and a white painted hull. Her bow was a "ram bow" which projected forward below the waterline.

Career

She was built for the transport of troops between the United Kingdom and the Indian sub-continent, and was operated by the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. She carried up to 1,200 troops and family on a passage of approximately 70 days.

In common with her sisters she was re-engined, her single-expansion steam engine being replaced with a Napier 2-cylinder compound-expansion engine in 1873.

In 1878 or early 1879 she grounded in Whitsand Bay

Whitsand Bay

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near Plymouth. Her Commanding Officer, Captain Percy Luxmoore, was dismissed from the ship and replaced by Captain John Grant.

Fate

She became the base ship at Bermuda in 1897 and was renamed HMS Terror on 1 May 1905; the name Malabar was later used by the Royal Naval dockyard at Bermuda. Terror was sold in January 1918.

Commanding officers

From	Until	Captain
22 March 1867	13 February 1870	Captain Frederic Dampier Rich
14 February 1870	21 August 1872	Captain Sholto Douglas
17 October 1872	10 September 1864	Captain Thomas Baker Martin Sulivan
10 September 1874	26 October 1874	Captain Edward Thomas Nott (died in command)
30 October 1874		Captain Edward Kelly
27 April 1878	8 February 1879	Captain Percy Patt Luxmoore
8 February 1879		Captain John Frederick George Grant