HMHS Goorkha
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Name | HMHS Goorkha |
Builder/Built | 1897 Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Type | Passenger Liner |
Displacement | 6,287 tons |
Speed | 12.5 knots |
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History | |
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Name | HMHS Goorkha |
Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
Launched | 23 January 1897 |
Completed | 28 August 1897 |
Fate | scrapped by Thomas War in 1928 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger Liner |
Tonnage | 6,287 tons |
Length | 430 ft (131.06m) |
Beam | 52 ft (15.85m) |
Propulsion | twin screw |
Speed | 12.5 knots 923.15 km/h) |
Capacity | 55 x 1st, 70 x 2nd and 70 x 3rd class passengers. |
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Remarks
Owned by the Union Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd. built for the Intermediate service and transferred to Union-Castle on 8th March 1900 when the companies merged. In 1910 she was moved to the East Africa service where she remained until 20th October 1914 when she was commissioned as a hospital ship with 408 beds.
The Goorkha was mined off Malta on 10 Oct 1917. The 362 on board including 17 nursing sisters all survived as she was cleared in 35 minutes. Towed into Malta Harbour where on 18 Oct 1917 she was returned to Union-Castle for repairs and resumption of hospital ship services until the end of hostilities or later. Responsibility for running the ship seems to have moved from the Naval authorities to the ship's owners when she resumed duties. In September 1918 she carried wounded from Salonika to Malta. [1]
The Ghoorkha was laid up at Netley, Southampton Water in 1926 and broken up in 1928.