The Malabar was built under construction number 609 at Barclay, Curle and Company in Glasgow and launched on July 9, 1925. In the same year she took up the liner service for the Burns Philp and Company between Sydney, Melbourne, Java and Singapore, where she was to spend the next six years.
On April 2, 1931, the ship ran into thick fog in Miranda Bay seven miles south of Port Jackson on a rock. All passengers and crew as well as three horses in the hold could be recovered. Only the ship's cat of Malabar could not be brought to safety.
During the Easter holidays , around half a million onlookers visited the wrecked wreck, which was almost completely destroyed by the strong surf within a few days. Much of the ship debris lying on the coast was scrapped in the 1960s, leaving little of the Malabar wreck today.
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