HMAT A16 Port Melbourne

HMAT A16 Port Melbourne

History
Name	HMAT A16 Port Melbourne
Builder/Built	1914 Workman Clark, Belfast
Type	SS Troopship (twin screw)
Displacement	9,136 tons
Speed	13 knots

Remarks

Also known for part of the war as Star of Victoria. Owned by the Commonwealth and Dominion Line. Requisitioned by the Commonwealth in 1914, she spent August / September being converted to carry 1,000 troops. Under both names, it made eight transport voyages from Australia commencing with the first convoy when it carried the 1st Light Horse Brigade. The renaming occured in 1916 when its ownership was taken back by the Commonwealth and Dominion Line Ltd of London. Vessel remained under lease with the Commonwealth until 2 Oct 1917. In 1919 she was converted for normal commercial trade. Following lengthy periods laid up in the 1930s, during WW2 she was used as a carrier of chilled meat, and survived to eventually be broken up in 1948.

Fremantle to Davenport 30 Oct 1916 - 28 Dec 1916

Arthur James Allen
William James Barnard
Patrick Francis Fitzgerald
Thomas Brown Mack
William George Martin
Thomas Ramsell
John Alexander Trotter
Francis William Wakeham
Frederick Owen Werndly

Albany to Liverpool 23 Jul 1917 - 16 Sep 1917

John Shepherd (Jnr)

Albany to Southampton via Port Suez, Alexandria, Faenza (Italy) 8 May 1918 - 20 Aug 1918

Ernest Taylor
George Charles Unwin