The 8,946 GRT steamship Khyber was built at Cammell, Laird & Company in Birkenhead for P & O's passenger and freight service from England to India and Australia. She was the second of six sister ships that were built at the two shipyards of Cammell, Laird & Company and Caird & Company , measured around 9,000 GRT and were put into service in 1914 and 1915. The others were the Khiva (II) (1914), the Karmala (I) (1914), the Kalyan (1915), the Kashgar (II) (1914) and the Kashmir (1915).
The 146.4 meter long and 17.7 meter wide ship had a chimney, two masts and two propellers and was propelled by steam engines that allowed a speed of 14 knots. The passenger capacity was 147 travelers in two classes. The Khyber was launched on November 29, 1913 and was completed on March 17, 1914. On September 5, 1914, she ran from London on her maiden voyage via Bombay and Colombo to Melbourne and Sydney . She then completed at least four crossings on this route.
On May 5, 1920, the Khyber left London for her first post-war voyage to Australia, but from now on Bombay was no longer called. It was decommissioned in 1931 and arrived on December 23, 1931 for demolition in Kobe (Japan).
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