HMAT A64 Demosthenes
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Name | HMAT A64 Demosthenes |
Builder/Built | 1911 Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Type | passenger liner |
Displacement | 11,223 tons |
Speed | 15 knots |
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Remarks
Built for the Aberdeen Line. In peacetime she was used by the Aberdeen Line on the UK to Australia route.
Leased by the Commonwealth and made five trips as a troop ship, the last one under the control of the Admiralty who took her over on 16 Mar 1917.
In 1923 its owners were G. Thompson & Co of London. In 1928 the ship was managed by the Oceanic Line and carried passengers between the UK and Brisbane.
It was scrapped in 1931.
Soldiers carried
Fremantle to Egypt 22 Jul 1915 - ? August 1915
England to Fremantle 27 July - 18 September 1917
England to Albany 16 January - 22 February 1919
- Charles Glyn Firns
- Edward Henry Hanrahan boarded at Port Suez
- Roderick McCaskill
- Wilfred (George) Nettleton