HMHS Soudan
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Name | HMHS Soudan |
Builder/Built | 1901 Caird & Company Greenock |
Type | Passenger / cargo ship |
Displacement | 6,680 tons |
Speed | 14 knots |
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Owned by the Peninsular & Oriental Line and chartered by the British War Office on 3 Aug 1918 for use as a naval hospital ship. One of the vessels used for the reception, treatment and movement of casualties during the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-1916. Returned to her owners in 1919 and sold to Japan for scrap in 1925.