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Revision as of 21:05, 8 June 2017
HMAT A28 Miltiades | |
History | |
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Name |
HMAT A28 Miltiades |
Builder/Built | 1903 Alex Stephen & Sons, Glasgow. |
Type | SS Troopship |
Displacement | 7,814 tons |
Speed | 13 knots |
Contents
Remarks
Requisitioned as a troopship in 1915. On 1 Nov 1914 arrived in Albany to become one of the ships in the 1st Convoy. 7 Feb 1916 carried Medical Officers fro Adelaide, and on 1 Aug 1916, Medical Officers from Melbourne, stopping in Fremantle for more of the same on 9 Aug 1916. On 24 Jan 1917 Medical Officers from Adelaide, and on 2 Aug 1917 more of the same from Sydney.
Commonwealth control ended 15 Sep 1917. Resumed commercial service in June 1920. Purchased by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and renamed ORCANA. She later served with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company for their South American service. She was laid up from 1923 to 1924. Scrapped in Holland
Soldiers carried
Fremantle to Port Suez 12 February - 11 March 1916
- Clyde Bird
- Thomas Bird
- Victor Leo Gordon Boyle
- William Carroll
- Albert Edward Coates Delamotte Post WW1 men
- Henry McCavana
- William Plant
- John Whittaker
Fremantle to Plymouth 7 August - 25 September 1916
- Rueben Arnold
- Edward Bailey
- Richard Beattie
- Albert Victor Berry
- Macalister Adair Blain
- Sidney Herrick Carter
- William Francis Cohn
- Thomas Hesketh
- William Lamplough Ullyott