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HMAT Warilda (His Majesty's Australian Transport) was a 7713-ton vessel, built by William Beardmore and Company in Glasgow as the SS Warilda for the Adelaide Steamship Company. [2] She was designed for the East-West Australian coastal service, but following the start of the First World War , she was converted into a troopship and later, in 1916 ...
The earliest record of British hospital ship was Goodwill, which briefly accompanied a Royal Navy squadron in the Mediterranean in 1608 or 1609. [1] [2] From 1665 the Royal Navy formally maintained two hospital ships at any time, these being either hired merchant ship or elderly sixth rates, modified from their original design by the removal of internal bulkheads and addition of ports cut ...
HMHS Huntley [A 2] UK 21 December 1915.75 miles (1.21 km) off the Boulogne LV. Torpedoed by German U-boat UB-10: 2 [15] [16] HMHS Britannic: UK: 21 November 1916: Aegean sea : Struck a mine laid by a German U-boat U-73: 30 [5] HMHS Dover Castle: UK 26 May 1917
HMHS may refer to: Humana Military Healthcare Services , an American military health care provider Her or His Majesty's Hospital Ship, a ship prefix; see List of hospitals and hospital ships of the Royal Navy
August 3 – WWI: Australian hospital ship HMAT Warilda is torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel on passage from Le Havre to Southampton by German submarine SM UC-49 with the loss of 123 of the 801 people on board. [16]
SS Op Ten Noort renamed: HMHS Hikawa Maru No.2: Netherlands Japan 17 August 1945: Wakasa Bay Scuttled by placing explosive charges in the hull, to cover war crimes (14 August 1945) 0 [18] [19] HMHS Maid of Kent: Great Britain 21 May 1940: Dieppe harbour Bombed by German warplanes 43 [20] [21] HMHS Newfoundland: UK 13 September 1943
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The unit was sent by "devious routes" by train to Jersey City where under cover of darkness they boarded a ferry crossing to the covered pier 86 in New York where a band played and the Red Cross served their last coffee and doughnuts as they boarded "N.Y. 40", the New York Port of Embarkation code designation for Aquitania, which got underway ...