HMHS Franconia

History
Name	HMHS Fanconia
Builder/Built	1910 Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle upon Tyne
Type	Ocean Liner
Displacement	18,150 tons
Speed	17 knots

Remarks

An Ocean Liner operated by the Cunard Line on the Liverpool to Boston USA route until 1915.

In early 1915 she was taken into service as a troop transport, and on 4 Oct 1916 while heading for Salonika she was torpedoed by the German U-Boat UB-47 when 325 km east of Malta. She was not carrying troops at the time, but 12 of the crew of 314 perished. HMHS Dover Castle saved the others.

Malta to England 25 August - 8 September 1915

• Frederick Rawlinson

Gibraltar to England 10 - 12 November 1915

• Cecil Arthur Hill MM
• Henry John Robert Saint

Alexandria, Egypt to England

• Edward William Tink