HMHS Delta

History
Name	HMHS Delta
Builder/Built	1905 Workman Clark at Belfast
Type	Hospital Ship
Displacement	8,042 tons

Remarks

Owned by the Penisular and Oriental Steam Navigation Coy. Acted as a Hospital Ship from 14 Jan 1914 to 19 Mar 1918. Staffed by 6 Medical Officers, 12 Nurses and 45 others staff it was fitted with 287 cots and 210 berths. In 1915 it was used as a Hospital Ship for the Dardanells, and in 1919 as the SS Delta it repatriated Australian troops before being refitted for normal commercial work. 1919 sold for scrap.

Soldiers carried

Mudros to England 3 - ? May 1915

• William Edward Reed
• George Young

Mudros to Alexandria 9 - August 1915

• † Thomas Buckingham

England to Albany 24 January - 28 February 1919

Redirected from Fremantle due to quarantine scare.

• Leith John Newton Angelo
• Charles Blunt
• Archibald Roland Bunney
• Henry Melville Hardinge
• Ellis Henry Hill
• Albert Nock
• Joseph William Smith
• Edward William Tink