| Name: | HINDOSTAN launched as CALCUTTA |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Keel: | 02/08/1868 |
| Launched | 19/02/1869 |
| Completed: | 16/04/1869 |
| Builder: | J Wigham Richardson & Co |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 56 |
| Dimensions: | 1499grt, 1019nrt, 1525dwt, 290.0 x 35.2 x 20.8ft |
| Engines: | 2cyl (64 & 64 x 36ins), 300nhp |
| Engines by: | Thompson, Boyd & Co, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw; 11.5knots (trials) |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 60925 |
| History: | |
| 08/04/1869 | Apcar & Co, Calcutta; registered at London |
| 1881 | Red Cross Line (R Singlehurst & Co & Booth Line); renamed AMAZONENSE |
| 1896 | JH Tandonnet, Bordeaux; renamed SAINT AUGUSTIN |
| 09/1897 | Broken up |
| Comments | 19/02/1869: Launched as CALCUTTA |
| Built for the UK to India & China trades | |
| Contract Price £38,000; Profit £2307 | |
| 15/04/1881: First voyage to South America | |
| By 1882: Re-engined by CD Holmes & Co, Hull; CI2cyl (44 & 78 x 36ins), 300nhp | |
| 23/07/1897: Put into Cartagena with boiler trouble | |
| 09/1897: Broken up at Marseilles |