HMAT A32 Themistocles
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History | |
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Builder/Built | 1910 Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Displacement | 11,231 tons |
Speed | 15 knots |
==Remarks=Original owner was the Aberdeen Line, later sold to the Shaw, Saville & Albion Line for routes to Australia.
She could carry 250 third class passengers, and 100 in first class. The trip to Melbourne took 40 days.
Served during WW1 as a troopship under the control of the Commonwealth until 20 Oct 1917, and in trans Atlantic convoys during WW2. Between the wars and after WW2 she returned to the Australian route.
She was scraped on 24 Aug 1947.
List of soldiers carried
William Bingham
James (Roy) Braidwood MM MID
Henry Thomas Cockram
Stephen Henry Horrocks