Allahabad was launched on 19 September 1864 by W H Potter & Company in Liverpool, as an iron full-rigged ship of 1,185 registered tons.

[2] The ship was built for the shipowner James Baines & Co. of Liverpool and began her maiden voyage from there, to Calcutta, on 10 December 1864.

[5] At the time of her loss she was the property of Thomas Wall Stephens of London and him being the managing owner.

[6] Allahabad last left Glasgow on 2 July 1886, with a crew of 20 and a cargo of 1,712 tons, of which 1,635 was coal, bound to Dunedin, New Zealand.

Having been signalled on 7 July off the Tuskar, she was on 4 September following, spoken, in about 29°S 28°W / 29°S 28°W / -29; -28 by the ship South Australian.