Loss of British transport HMS Malabar feared according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated Monday 22 January 1894

An item reported that at Bombay was feared for the fate of the British transport HMS Malabar (1) which was four days over time. A later tiding confirmed her arrival on Friday morning.

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1. A screw steam troop transport of the Euphrates-class of which the building was ordered in 1865. She was launched at the shipyard Thames Shipbuilding Company at Leamouth, London on 8 December a year later with as yard number 120. Renamed on 1 May 1905 Terror was she sold in January 1918. With a displacement of 6,186 tons or 4,189 tons builders measurement were her dimensions 360 (over all) x 49’0.75”x 22’4” or 109,7 x 15,0 x 6,81 metres. Her armament consisted of just 3-4pdr guns. Her original 2-cylinder horizontal single expansion engine supplied 4,893 ihp allowing a speed of 15 knots and she was barque-rigged. In 1873 was she fitted out with a Napier 2-cylinder compound expansion engine.