Difference between revisions of "HMAT A7 Medic"

HMAT A7 Medic
History
Name	HMAT A7 Medic
Builder/Built	1899 Harland & Wolff,Belfast
Type	Passenger / cargo vessel (twin screw)
Displacement	11,985 tons
Speed	14 knots

Revision as of 20:06, 8 December 2017

1 Remarks
2 Soldiers carried
3 Fremantle to Alexandria 2 November - 13 December 1914
4 Fremantle to Alexandria 9 October 1915 - ??
5 Fremantle to Alexandria 18 January - 16 February 1916
6 Fremantle to Port Suez 31 March - 24 April 1916
7 Melbourne to Plymouth 20 May - 18 July 1916
8 Sydney to Halifax 1 August - 21 September 1917
9 England to Fremantle 24 August - 15 October 1918
10 England to Melbourne 10 April - 31 May 1919

Remarks

Built for the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co Ltd (White Star Line), and used on the UK to Sydney via Cape Town route. Capable of carrying 320 cabin class passengers.

Her first return trip involved carrying Victorian, Tasmanian and Western Australian troops to the Boer War.

Leased by the Commonwealth at the outset of WW1, she made six journeys from Australia as a troop ship after which her management was transferred to he British Admiralty. The Medic was a participant in the 1st convoy from Albany to Egypt. On her return to Australia she was converted at Cockatoo Island Drydock to transport 531 troops and 500 horses.

Soldiers carried

Fremantle to Alexandria 2 November - 13 December 1914

Fremantle to Alexandria 9 October 1915 - ??

Walter Raymond Farnham as a stowaway

Fremantle to Alexandria 18 January - 16 February 1916

Fremantle to Port Suez 31 March - 24 April 1916

James Candish

Melbourne to Plymouth 20 May - 18 July 1916

Sydney to Halifax 1 August - 21 September 1917

England to Fremantle 24 August - 15 October 1918

George Henry Martin MM MiD

England to Melbourne 10 April - 31 May 1919

Leo Patrick Kane

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 Her first return trip involved carrying Victorian, Tasmanian and Western Australian troops to the Boer War.
-Leased by the Commonwealth until 26 Oct 1917, she was a participant in the 1st convoy from Albany to Egypt.  On her return to Australia she was converted at Cockatoo Island Drydock to transport 531 troops and 500 horses.
+Leased by the Commonwealth at the outset of WW1, she made six journeys from Australia as a troop ship after which her management was transferred to he British Admiralty.  The ''Medic'' was a participant in the 1st convoy from Albany to Egypt.  On her return to Australia she was converted at Cockatoo Island Drydock to transport 531 troops and 500 horses.
 ==Soldiers carried==