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| image          = [[File:HMAT_A52_Surada.jpg|border|600px]]
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| image2         = [[File:HMAT_A52_Surada_1.jpg]]
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| shipname =  HMAT A52 Surada
| shipowner = 
| shipbuilder = A & J Inglis Pointhouse, Glasgow
| shipyardnumber = 266
| shiplaunched = 25 Jan 1902
| shipcompleted =	1902
| shipinservice = 3 Mar 1902
| shipoutofservice =
| shipinservice2 =	
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| shipreclassified =	
| shipID = TGLM
| shipfate = torpedoed and sunk 2 Nov 1918
| shiptype =	 Passenger / cargo steamship 
| shiptonnage =  5,236 tons
| shiplength = 410 ft (125m)
| shipbeam = 50.7 ft (15.45m)
| shipdepth = 28.8 ft (8.78)m
| shippropulsion = single screw	
| shipspeed =	11.5 knots (21.30 kph)
| shipcapacity = 9 x 1st class; 16 x 2nd class; 1421 x steerage
}}


==Remarks==
Built for the British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London to cary 9 first class, 16 second class, amd 1421 passengers in steerage. Leased by the Commonwealth, she made four trips from Australia carrying troops, two in 1915, and two in 1916. Her management was then taken over by the British Admiralty on 4 Jan 1917.


On 2 Nov 1918 she was torpedoed by UC 74 in the swept channel off Port Said while on passage from Karachi to Marseille with rice.  She was the last merchant ship lost during WW1.

==Soldiers carried==

===Melbourne to Port Suez 6 February - 21 March 1915===
"C" Squadron, 10th Light Horse Regiment embarked in Fremantle on 17 February, and disembarked on 22 Mar 1915
*[[Claude Francis Cooper]]
*[[Spencer Gwynne DCM  MID]]
*[[Percy Francis Keenan]]
*[[John Regan]]
*[[Samuel Edward Tate]]

===Fremantle to Port Suez 16 May - 16 June 1916===
*[[Herbert Stanley (Bert) Jones]]
*[[Victor Henry Jones]]
*[[William Renfrey Thomas]]

===Fremantle to Plymouth 22 September - 20 November 1916===
Boarded 22 September and sailed 26 September 1916
* [[Joseph Clough]]
* [[Harold Empsall]]
* † [[Joseph Reginald Jones]]
* † [[Osborne King]]
* [[Bertram Ernest Powell]]
* † [[Arthur John Verrall]]

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