HMAT A30 Borda

History
Name	HMAT A30 Borda
Builder/Built	1913 Caird & Company, Greenock
Type	Passenger / cargo (refrigerated)
Displacement	11,136 tons
Speed	14 knots

Remarks

Built for the Pacific & Orient Steam Navigation Company of London, and designed for the Australian emigrant service via Cape Town.

Leased by the Commonwealth until 10 Sep 1917 during which time it made 6 voyages from Australia with troops. On 19 Sep 1917 management was transferred to the British Admiralty. Part of the second convoy from Albany.

1920 returned to Australian service. Last trip from Australia in 1929, before being sold in 1930 to Japan for demolition at Kobe.

Fremantle to Port Suez 26 April - ? May 1915

• William Buck

Alexandria to Mudros 18 - 21 October 1915

• John Alexander Spilsbury

Port Suez to Fremantle 15 November - 13 December 1915

• Samuel Edward Tate

Fremantle to Port Suez 17 January - 9 February 1916

• James Barber
• Edward Patrick Barker
• George Edward Binns
• Donald Victor Chisholm
• Alexander Donald
• Charles Rudolff Dumps
• William Ellis boarded in Adelaide
• Frederick James Howard
• Thomas William Kerry
• Roderick McCaskill
• Patrick O'Flaherty
• John James Thorpe
• Ernest Wells

England to Fremantle 17 August - 16 September 1916

• William Buck

Fremantle to Plymouth 29 June - 25 August 1917

• Alan Harry Boyce
• William Alfred Gallant MBE
• John James Gill
• Alfred Gittins
• Clarence William Hammond
• Leslie Charles Hutchinson
• John Kiely
• James Lang
• Cecil Herbert McKeown
• John Laidlaw Paterson
• James Edward Richardson
• Robert Rueben Rodgers

Plymouth to Fremantle 26 September - 12 November 1917

• Francis William Wakeham

England to Fremantle 9 December 1919 - 19 January 1920

• Herbert Lewis Battams