HMAT A38 Ulysses

History
Name	HMAT A38 Ulysses
Builder/Built	1913 Workman Clark, Belfast
Type	Passenger cargo ship (twin screw)
Displacement	14,449 tons
Speed	13.5 knots

Remarks

Owned by China Mutual SN Co, of London, leased by the Commonwealth until 15 Aug 1917. Made six trips from Australia. In addition to carrying troops, along with the other transports she carried general goods to the UK. On 15 Aug 1917 management was passed to the British Admiralty.

At 22.31 hours on 11 Apr, 1942, the unescorted Ulysses enroute from Sydney to Liverpool with cargo, was hit in the stern by one stern torpedo from U-160 45 miles south of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and in the engine room by a torpedo at 22.53 hours. While the crew abandoned ship, the U-boat moved to the side and at 23.27 hours fired another torpedo that hit amidships and caused the ship to sink in 30 minutes, but this was not observed by the Germans because a flying boat was now circling the area.

The master, 189 crew members, five gunners and 95 passengers were picked up by USS Manley and landed at Charleston, South Carolina.

Soldiers carried

Melbourne to Port Tewfik (Suez) 8 May - ?? June 1915

• Ivor Trehane Birtwistle

Mudros to Alexandria 19 - 24 Aug 1915 (Hospital Ship)

• John Charles Hutchinson

Port Tewfik to Fremantle 24 September 1915 - ? October 1915

• Clement Wilder Benporath

Melbourne to Port Tewfik (Suez) 27 Oct - 26 Nov 1915

• Edward Mordan Neale
• Henry Giles Schmidt from Fremantle 2 Nov

Fremantle to Port Tewfik (Suez) 2 - 26 November 1915

• William Edward Butcher MM RMG MID
• Victor Norman Chandler MM
• Francis Crowe
• Aubrey Cecil Dawson
• Gordon Devereux MM
• Victor Emanuel Durling
• Albert John Egan MID
• Richard Evans MM
• Walter David Francis Kerridge
• James Kershaw
• Alexander Russell Main
• Leonard Roy Matthews
• Keith George Harman Podger
• William Rawlinson
• † Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor
• William Edgar Rowe
• Francis Henry Ryniker
• Henry Giles Schmidt
• † Ernest Selkirk MID
• Arthur William Symonds

Melbourne to Port Tewfik (Suez) 27 Oct - ?? Nov 1915

• Edward Mordan Neale

Lemnos to Alexandria 20 - 22 December 1915

• Edward (Ted) Harry Darby
• Charles Richard Irvine MM & Bar
• James Anthony Parker
• Hector Lionel Saw

Alexandria to Fremantle 3 January - 5 February 1916

• Frederick Hobbs

Sydney to Alexandria 20 February - 25 April 1916

Fremantle passengers boarded 1 Apr 1915

• James Smith Dean
• Thomas William Dowell
• Herbert Fuhrmann
• John Wilfred Gargett
• William Harwood
• John Henry Holroyd
• James Lawrence McKenna
• Henry Joseph Milne
• William George Munday boarded in Sydney
• Edward Price
• Robert Landen Rayner
• Cyril Augustest Tonkin
• William Harrington Edward Watson boarded in Melbourne on 20 Feb 1916

Melbourne to Plymouth 25 October - 28 December 1916

• Charles Henry Robinson

England to Fremantle 13 February - 12 April 1917

• Henry Thomas Cockram
• Percy Goodall
• Charles Gorringe
• Alexander Russell Main
• William Stephens

England to Fremantle 10 September - 4 November 1917

• George Henry Aspinall
• Alexander Donald
  

Port Said, Egypt to Fremantle 15 February - 11 March 1918

• Edward James (Ted) Rouse

Devonport to Fremantle 18 January 1919 - 24 February 1919

• Eugene Anthony Gillespie Sick to Gibraltar Hospital 23 Jan 1918
• Frederick George Golding
• Samuel Arthur Vincent
• Aubrey Jesse Whittington MM

England to Melbourne 22 July 1919 - 30 Aug 1919

• Frederick James Allison MM