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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Himalaya (1854) and SS Himalaya (1892).
SS Himalaya was a steam turbine ocean liner that was launched in England in 1948 and scrapped in Taiwan in 1975. She spent her entire career with P&O, at first on scheduled services between Tilbury and Australia, and latterly as a cruise ship. From her maiden voyage in 1949 until the completion of Arcadia in 1954, Himalaya was the largest liner in the P&O fleet.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Himalaya |
Namesake | Himalayas |
Owner | P&O SN Co |
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Port of registry | London |
Route | Tilbury – Australia |
Ordered | 29 March 1945 |
Builder | Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow |
Cost | £3,500,000 |
Yard number | 951 |
Laid down | 29 February 1946 |
Launched | 5 October 1948 |
Completed | 1 September 1949 |
Maiden voyage | 6 October 1949 |
Out of service | 31 October 1974 |
Refit | 1960, 1963 |
Identification |
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Fate | scrapped 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Type | ocean liner |
Tonnage | 27,989 GRT, 12,060 NRT, 12,060 DWT |
Length | |
Beam | 90.8 ft (27.7 m) |
Draught | 35.5 ft (10.8 m) |
Depth | 31.1 ft (9.5 m) |
Installed power | 42,500 SHP |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h) |
Capacity |
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Crew | 572 |
Notes | sister ships: Orcades, Oronsay |
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This was the third P&O liner to be called Himalaya. The first Himalaya was completed in 1854, spent most of her career in the Royal Navy as a troop ship and then a coal hulk, and was sunk by enemy action in the Second World War.[1] The second Himalaya was completed in 1892, was a Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser in the First World War, and was scrapped in 1922.[2]