HMAT A63 Karoola

HMAHS Karoola
History
Name	HMAT A63 Karoola
Builder/Built	1909
Type	Passenger / cargo ship
Displacement	7,391 tons
Speed	15 knots

Remarks

Owned by the McIiwraith, McEacharn's Line Pty Ltd, Melbourne, and leased by the Commonwealth until Jun 1919. During her war service she was manned by Australian officers and crew.

During its Commonwealth service it was initially used twice to transport troops to Egypt, but in 1916 she continued on to England and was converted to a Hospital Ship for the England to Australia run and was used on four occasions for this purpose before thr end of the war.

Returned to her owners in lateon 27 Jun1919

Nursing Staff

Sydney to Fremantle 16 - 25 June 1915

• Euphemia Weir Huntley Scott

August 1915 until 21 September 1916

A member of the ships nursing staff

• Catherine Ann McGillivray

Soldiers carried

Fremantle to Egypt 25 Jun - ?? Jul 1915

• † Sydney Charles Clarke

Suez to Fremantle 20 January 1916 - ? February 1916

via Colombo on 3 February 1916

• Gerrie Anderson

Fremantle to Suez 14 March - ?? Apr 1916

• John Murray

Alexandria to Fremantle 5 July - 2 August 1916

• Herbert William Coxhead
• Alfred Cecil Clarence Curtis

England to Fremantle 16 October - 2 December 1916

• William Joseph Hayden
• Edgar Leslie Livermore

England to Melbourne 22 Feb 1917 - 10 Apr 1917

• Thomas Bird disembarked in Fremantle
• Ivor Trehane Birtwistle Post WW1 men

England to Fremantle 3 July - 18 August 1917

• Arthur Patrick Joyce
• Ernest Wells

England to Fremantle 6 May - 15 June 1919

• George Harris