HMT Kalyan
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | HMT Kalyan |
| Builder/Built | 1915 Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| Type | passenger / cargo ship |
| Displacement | 9,000 tons |
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Remarks
Owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Navigation Company between 1915 and 1932. Initially used as a troop ship between England, Egypt and Salonika.
She was later refitted as a hospital ship and dispatched to North Russia in October 1918. After a 12-day voyage she arrived in Archangel. There she acted as a temporary base hospital for British, Canadian, French, Italian, Chinese and Russian sick and wounded.
Scrapped in Japan in 1932.
Soldiers carried
Alexandria to Mudros 18 -23 October 1915
- Victor Thomas Emanuel Compassi
- George Chistopher Dalziell DCM
- William Hart
- Angus Lindt
- † Ernest Edward Lockhart
- Harold V Marshall