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Name: HINDOO
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 14/11/1887
Completed: 07/12/1887
Builder: J Wigham Richardson & Co
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 220
Dimensions: 420grt, 13nrt, 230dwt, 205.5 x 28.2 x 12.1ft
Engines: T3cyl (21, 32 & 53 x 36ins), 300nhp
Engines by: J Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 15.3knots (trials)
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 95232
History:
07/12/1887 P Wigham Richardson; registered at Newcastle
1890 Cutch Mandevie Steam Navigation Co Ltd (Beyts & Craig, managers), Bombay
1892 Government of India; renamed OUTRAM
1893 Royal Indian Marine, Bombay; renamed ELPHINSTONE
1919 Unknown Owner
No later history known
Comments: Contract Price £14750, Profit £1217-15s-11d
Accommodation for 939 x "Coolie" passengers
1914: Served as a troopship in the East Indies during WW I