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Several ships have been named Himalaya, after the mountain range in Asia:

  • HMS Himalaya (1854), a large troopship launched in 1853 as the P&O Steam Navigation Company's passenger liner Himalaya
  • SS Himalaya (1867), a British India Steam Navigation Company passenger-cargo liner
  • SS Himalaya (1892), a P&O Steam Navigation Company passenger liner, sold to the Admiralty in 1916 as a seaplane carrier and repurchased in 1919.
  • SS Himalaya (1948), a P&O Steam Navigation Company passenger liner

References

  1. Laxon, W A; Perry, F W (1994). B.I. the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited. Kendal: World Ship Society. p. 40. ISBN 978-0905617657.
  2. Report on the Administration of the Madras Presidency. Madras: Madras Government Press. 1872. p. 123. Retrieved 27 November 2019. Himalaya.
  3. Rabson, Stephen; O'Donoghue, Kevin (1988). P&O: A Fleet History. Kendal: World Ship Society. p. 121. ISBN 0-905617-45-2.
  4. Colledge, J J; Warlow, Ben (2010). "Himalaya"&pg=PA185 Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. and updated. ed.). Casemate/Greenhill. p. 185. ISBN 978-1612000275. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
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