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==HM Indian Troopships==
Although generally referred to as HM Indian Troopships, the official designation was '''HMS Her Majesty's Ship'''.
The Euphrates- class troopships were a group of five purpose-built troopships paid for by the Indian Government and launched in 1866-7. The sister-ships were the 'Crocodile', 'Euphrates', 'Jumna, 'Malabar' and 'Serapis'. Each ship could transport a full battalion of infantry with its married families, or about 1,200 people.
By 1894, four of the five naval troopers were laid up while two P&O ships, 'Victoria' and 'Britannia' had a trial as troopers on charter. The two newcomers soon demonstrated that they could make a better job of it than the old naval ships and 'Crocodile' and her sisters were disposed of in 1896<ref>Preece, Nigel [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2000-01/0949092435 HM Indian Troopship Crocodile] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 28 January 2000. Retrieved 26 February, 2015</ref>
The ships were then designated '''HMT Hired Military Transport''', although at least during the First World War HMT could also mean His Majesty's Transport.<ref>Currell, Ralph [http://www.titanic-model.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=100&topic_id=48516 "H.M.T."] ''TRMA Discussion Forum'' January 21, 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2016.</ref> ==Movements of Troopship Crocodile 1886-1888==
:'''1886''' 06th Oct Sailed Portsmouth for Bombay;
:02nd Nov Arrived Bombay; 13th Nov Sailed Bombay for Portsmouth via Suez
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=m-yDhirnqWAC&pg=PA226 "The New Overland Troop Service to India"] ''Colburns’s United Service Magazine 1867 Part 3'', page 226. Google Books. (The Suez Canal was subsequently opened for navigation on 17 November 1869)
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=RCsAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA239 Periods for embarkation] page 239 ''The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army'' 1868 Google Books
*''24 coloured views of H.M. Indian troop-ship to Bombay & back'', published 1885. Bodleian Library Oxford Digital version. Possibly "Jumna". [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:oxfaleph014026612 Catalogue entry with link], [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/590522458.pdf direct pdf] (may be slow to load)
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b747693?urlappend=%3Bseq=55 A voyage to India on the Malabar in 1889] page 47, ''Some Rambles of a Sapper'' by Brigr-Genl. Herbert Henry Austin. 1928 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/527935 ''Seven Cantonments''] by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery. He describes the voyage to India on HMT Devon in the c1930sc 1930s. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=74987996&mode=transcription "Hot weather precautions"] ''Volume II [2], Part I - Annual report on the health of the army in India for the year 1939'', page 107 National Library of Scotland “ Medical History of British India”
