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− | Built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company, and requisitioned for use as a | + | Built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company, and used on the Britain to India route. She was requisitioned in 1914 for use as a Trop ship, and later as a Royal Naval Hospital Ship (YA5) during WW1. SHe saw heavy use during the Dardalles campaign, transferring wounded to Alexandria, Malta or back to the UK. |
+ | On 4 January 1918, while approaching the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, she was torpedoed and sunk by U_Boat U-55. She had sailed from Malta carrying 279 cot and walking wounded cases, and was fully illuminated as a Hospital Ship. Taking almost three hours to sink, casualties were light and all were saved except for four engine room crew killed in the explosion. | ||
==Soldiers carried== | ==Soldiers carried== |
Revision as of 21:01, 19 October 2021
Remarks
Built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company, and used on the Britain to India route. She was requisitioned in 1914 for use as a Trop ship, and later as a Royal Naval Hospital Ship (YA5) during WW1. SHe saw heavy use during the Dardalles campaign, transferring wounded to Alexandria, Malta or back to the UK.
On 4 January 1918, while approaching the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, she was torpedoed and sunk by U_Boat U-55. She had sailed from Malta carrying 279 cot and walking wounded cases, and was fully illuminated as a Hospital Ship. Taking almost three hours to sink, casualties were light and all were saved except for four engine room crew killed in the explosion.