HMAT A60 Aeneas

History
Name	HMAT A60 Aeneas
Builder/Built	1910 Workman Clarke at Belfast
Type	Troopship
Displacement	10,049 tons
Speed	14 knots

Remarks

Built for Ocean Steam Ship Co (Blue Funnel Line) for the South Africa - Australia service. Trip took 39 days and operated every six weeks.

Requisitioned by the Commonwealth for use as a troopship until 22 Jun 1917. Fitted out at Cockatoo Island in Sydney to carry 1,820 troops. She made several trips to England carrying reinforcements.

In May 1918 after she left Commonwealth control, she ran aground, but was refloated, and in 1920 resumed her peacetime Australian service with capacity for 180 first class passengers.

During WW2, she was bombed and sank on 2 Jul 1940 off Start Point Devon.

Fremantle to Port Suez 17 Apr 1916 - 14 May 1916

Edward Armstrong
Gordon Edgar (George) Bennett
Arthur Edward Bingham
Austin Henry (Paddy) Bingham
Gordon Vidgen Cross
Joseph Charles Joshua Farnell

Fremantle to Plymouth 15 Jul 1916 - 1 Sep 1916

Thomas Albert Leslie Cheney

Melbourne to Devonport 30 Oct 1917 - 27 Dec 1917

Dugald Thomas Main

Returned to Fremantle 31 May 1919 - 12 Jul 1919

Thomas Ramsell