It's a fact that at least two groups White Fathers (second and fourth caravan from Zanzibar) have travelled on the real SS Patna from Algiers to Aden on their way to Zanzibar, on the way to the later Heart of Darkness.
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In the Alien 3 novelization by Alan Dean Foster, The "rescue" ship that Bishop II arrives in is called the Patna.
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