Difference between revisions of "HMAT A20 Hororata"

HMAT A20 Hororata
	Preparing to leave Port Melbourne 17 Apr 1915
History
Name	HMAT A20 Hororata
Owner	New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd
Builder	William Deny & Bros, Dumbarton
Yard number	993
Launched	29 Dec 1913
Completed	23 May 1914
In service	3 Jun 1914
General characteristics
Type	Passenger / Cargo Refrigerated
Tonnage	9,461 tons
Length	511.1 ft
Beam	64.2 ft
Depth	32 ft
Propulsion	twin screw
Speed	15.7 knots (29.1 kph)
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Revision as of 15:16, 3 October 2021

Remarks

Owned by the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd, London and leased by the Commonwealth until 11 Sep 1917. Originally fitted out to serve the New Zealand emigrant trade, with 5 First Class berths and 1066 Steerage Class. She completed six voyages from Australia, the first being from Melbourne with the 6th and 7th Battalion HQs on 18 Oct 1914, and she was a member of the 1st Convoy that left from Albany. From 12 Sep 1917 until 12 Apr 1919 she was under the control of the British Admiralty, having been taken up as part of the Liner Requisition Scheme, continuing to carry troops.

Laid up from August 1930 until Feb 1933. The Hororata then served as a Cadet Training Ship from 1934 to 1939. Sold to the British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd in London, it was renamed Waroonga before being again requisitioned on 7 Mar 1940 for service with the Liner Requisition Scheme. On 5 Apr 1943 while part of a convoy from New York to London it was torpedoed by a U Boat, sinking the next day.

Soldiers carried

Fremantle to Port Tewfik 18 Feb 1915 - ??

Harold V Marshall

Fremantle to Port Tewfik (Suez) 26 April 1915 - 18 May 1915

Fremantle to Port Tewfik (Suez) 4 - 27 October 1915

Herbert Lewis Battams
† Sydney Fenner Blencowe
Bernard William Chatfield
† Walter Edward Dalziell
Charles Henry Davis
Lionel William Gibbs embarked 1 Oct 1915
Frederick George Hodges
William John Martin (1278)
† Charles William Price
† Stephen Henry Robson
Stuart Alan Webb
James Murray Whiteley

Alexandria to Marseilles 17 - 22 June 1916

John Edward Thomson

England to Fremantle 16 April - 30 May 1920

John Hall + wife and child

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 ==Remarks==
-Owned by the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd, London and leased by the Commonwealth until 11 Sep 1917.
+Owned by the New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd, London and leased by the Commonwealth until 11 Sep 1917. Originally fitted out to serve the New Zealand emigrant trade, with 5 First Class berths and 1066 Steerage Class. She completed six voyages from Australia, the first being from Melbourne with the 6th and 7th Battalion HQs on 18 Oct 1914, and she was a member of the 1st Convoy that left from Albany. From 12 Sep 1917 until 12 Apr 1919 she was under the control of the British Admiralty, having been taken up as part of the Liner Requisition Scheme, continuing to carry troops.
-Originally fitted out to serve the New Zealand emigrant trade, with 5 First Class berths and 1066 Steerage Class.
-Completed six voyages from Australia, the first being from Melbourne with the 6th and 7th Battalion HQs on 18 Oct 1914, and she was a member of the 1st Convoy that left from Albany. From 12 Sep 1917 until 12 Apr 1919 she was under the control of the British Admiralty, having been taken up as part of the Liner Requisition Scheme, continuing to carry troops.