HMAT A60 Aeneas

History
Name	HMAT A60 Aeneas
Builder/Built	1910 Workman Clarke at Belfast
Type	Troopship
Displacement	10,049 tons
Speed	14 knots

Remarks

Built for Ocean Steam Ship Co (Blue Funnel Line) for the South Africa - Australia service. Trip took 39 days and operated every six weeks.

Requisitioned by the Commonwealth for use as a troopship for four voyages from Australia and one as a cargo ship in 1917. Fitted out at Cockatoo Island in Sydney to carry 1,820 troops. She made several trips to England carrying reinforcements. Management was transferred to the British Admiralty on 22 Jun 1917.

In May 1918 after she left Commonwealth control, she ran aground, but was refloated, and in 1920 resumed her peacetime Australian service with capacity for 180 first class passengers.

During WW2, she was bombed and sank on 2 Jul 1940 off Start Point Devon.

Port Suez to Fremantle 31 October 1915 - 26 November 1915

• Joseph George Benton Snr
• John Charles Hutchinson

Fremantle to Port Suez 17 April - 14 May 1916

• Edward Armstrong
• Gordon Edgar (George) Bennett
• Arthur Edward Bingham
• Austin Henry (Paddy) Bingham
• Percy James Blake
• William Francis Clements
• Gordon Vidgen Cross
• Joseph Charles Joshua Farnell
• George Harris
• Robert Lightbody
• Alexander Robinson
• Alfred Arthur (Fred) Rouse
• Keith Herbert Sloan
• Herbert Winton Turner
• John Francis Ullyott

Fremantle to Plymouth 15 July - 1 September 1916

• Thomas Albert Leslie Cheney

Melbourne to England 3 October - 19 November 1916

• Norman Alfred Constantine

Melbourne to Devonport 30 October - 27 December 1917

• Joseph George Benton Jnr
• Ernest Camp
• Reginald William Edwards
• Dugald Thomas Main
• Ellis Shackleton
• Archibald Watson

Port Suez to Fremantle 1 - 27 January 1919

• Denzel Roy (Roy) Fletcher Post WW1 men

England to Fremantle 31 May - 12 July 1919

• Thomas Ramsell

England to Melbourne 22 November 1919 - 9 January 1920

• Allan Bernard Cann Post WW1 men
• Frederick Arthur Lister Maw