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Hindostan (ship)

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A number of ships have been named Hindostan or Hindustan, after the old name for the Indian subcontinent:

  • SS Hindostan (1842) was a P&O side paddle-wheel steamer that sank in a cyclone in Calcutta in 1864 while employed as a storeship.
  • SS Hindostan (1863) was built for British & Eastern Shipping Co., which sold her in 1873 to the New Zealand Shipping Co. That company renamed her the Waitara. She sank in 1883 following a collision with Hurunui in the English Channel, with a loss of 20 lives.
  • SS Hindostan (1869) was a P&O steamer that was wrecked on a reef near Madras in 1879.

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