HMS Himalaya (1854)
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Name | Himalaya |
Namesake | The Himalayas |
Owner | Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , London |
Route | Southampton – Alexandria |
Builder | C. J. Mare & Co., Leamouth, London |
Laid down | November 1851[1] |
Launched | 24 May 1853[1] |
Completed | 9 January 1854 |
Out of service | 14 July 1854 sold to British Government |
History | |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Himalaya |
Acquired | 14 July 1854 |
Out of service | Sold 28 September 1920 |
Renamed | C60 in December 1895 |
Reclassified | Coal hulk, December 1895 |
Fate | Sunk by Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers of the German Luftwaffe 12 June 1940 |
General characteristics | |
Type |
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Tonnage | 3,438 GRT, 2,327 NRT |
Displacement | 4,690 tons |
Length | 339 ft (103 m)[2] |
Beam | 46 ft (14 m)[2] |
Propulsion | Single expansion steam, single screw |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Speed |
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Capacity | 3000 troops[3] |
Complement | 213 crew[3] |
HMS Himalaya was built for the
Design and construction
Himalaya was ordered by the
P&O service
The new ship left the Thames on 12 January 1854 for Southampton, arriving the following day, and then on 21 January sailed on her maiden voyage to Alexandria, via Gibraltar and Malta, with passengers, mail and specie for onward carriage to India and China.[7][8] By the time she returned to Southampton on 16 February, Himalaya had been chartered to carry troops to Constantinople.[9][10] In early March she sailed from Southampton and Plymouth for the Mediterranean with 1452 troops and equipment.[11]
P&O had concluded that Himalaya was a larger vessel than the passenger traffic demanded and, with coal becoming more expensive with the advent of war in the Crimea, would not be economic. In July 1854, after another trooping voyage, to Scutari, the company was able to persuade the British Government to buy her to use as a troopship for £133,000, a little above her cost price of £130,000.[2][3][4][12]
After purchase, Himalaya was converted to carry up to 3000 soldiers and subsequently served as a troopship for four decades.
She retired from trooping service and was
C60 was sold out of the navy on 28 September 1920 to a private owner, E. W. Payne, and towed to
Legacy
Himalaya's figurehead of an Indian warrior is preserved in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.[26]
Citations
- ^ a b "Himalaya (5610069)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f "Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering on the Thames in the Victorian Era: No. XIV" (PDF). The Engineer. Vol. 85. 18 April 1898. pp. 253–254. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2013.
- ^ a b c d Callaghan, George (December 2002). "Cornelius Cronin: Stoker, Royal Navy". Medal Society of Ireland. Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ ISBN 0-297-78965-1.
- ^ ISBN 0-905617-45-2.
- ^ a b "Launch of the Himalaya, 3,550 tons". The Standard. No. 8984. London: British Newspaper Archive. 25 May 1853. p. 3. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ a b "The Largest Ship in the World". Liverpool Mercury. No. 2572. British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 17 January 1854. p. 6. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Departure of the Himalaya". Bell's Weekly Messenger. No. 2980. London: British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 23 January 1854. p. 5. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Embarkation of Troops for the East". The Express. No. 2333. London: British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 11 February 1854. p. 3. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Arrival of the Himalaya". The Sun. No. 19157. London: British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 17 February 1854. p. 7. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Embarkation of Troops". Leeds Times. No. 1094. British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 4 March 1854. p. 7. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Navy Notes". Army and Navy Gazette. No. 1898. British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 6 June 1896. p. 466. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ Douglas, General Sir Howard (1861). A Postscript to the Section on Iron Defences contained in the Fifth Edition of "Naval Gunnery" (2nd ed.). London: John Murray. pp. 85-92. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- ^ "Loss of the Transit". The Morning Chronicle. No. 28296. London. 31 August 1857.
- ^ "Admiralty Court, Nov. 3". The Times. No. 23455. London. 4 November 1859. col C, p. 9.
- ^ "Disasters at Sea". The Morning Post. No. 26792. London. 1 November 1859. p. 6.
- ^ "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury etc. No. 3656. Liverpool. 2 November 1859.
- ^ ISBN 1-86176-032-9.
- ^ "Ship News". The Times. No. 26654. London. 22 January 1870. col F, p. 10.
- ^ "Latest Shipping Intelligence". The Times. No. 29704. London. 21 October 1879. col F, p. 9.
- ^ "Grounding of a Troopship". Glasgow Herald. No. 288. Glasgow. 1 December 1880. p. 4. Retrieved 14 July 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Military and Naval". The Express. No. 9180. Dublin. 1 December 1880. p. 3. Retrieved 15 July 2022 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Naval and Military". Bath Chronicle. No. 7080. British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 4 October 1894. p. 6. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Maritime Notes". Shields Daily Gazette. No. 12496. British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 30 June 1896. p. 4. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "An Interesting Vessel". Army and Navy Gazette. No. 3169. British Newspaper Archive (subscription). 16 October 1920. p. 582. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Figurehead of the HMS Himalaya". Figureheads. Royal Museums Greenwich. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
References
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Brown, D. K., Before the Ironclad: Development of Ship Design, Propulsion and Armament in the Royal Navy, 1815–1860. London: Conway, 1990. ISBN 0-85177-532-2
- HMS Himalaya information
- Low, Charles Rathbone. A Memoir of Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet J. Wolseley Vol. II 1878. p. 269.
External links
- Media related to HMS Himalaya (ship, 1854) at Wikimedia Commons