HMAT A29 Suevic
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History | |
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Name | HMAT A29 Suevic |
Builder/Built | 1901 Harland Wolff, Belfast |
Type | Passenger / refrigerated cargo ship |
Displacement | 12,531 tons |
Speed | 13.5 knots |
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Remarks
Built for Oceanic Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Liverpool (White Star Line). Leased by the Commonwealth until 9 Sep 1917. Completed at least six journey from Australia with troops, and in 1918 brought home a load of sick and wounded men.
Soldiers carried
Portland to Fremantle 11 March - 22 April 1916
Fremantle to Plymouth 6 June - 21 July 1916
- Martin Abolin
- Edgar Copley Adams MiD Post WW1 men
- James Arnold
- John Buckland
- John Thomas Buckland
- Patrick (John) Curo
- Thomas Henry William Denny
- Percy Fleming
- Rupert Gregg
- Raymond Harold Hanretty
- Charles Stephen Haughey
- Henry Ernest Howard
- Jason Howard
- Arthur Patrick Joyce
- Thomas Frederick McDonough
- Thomas McGow
- William Moffat McLachlan MM
- Patrick Michael
- James O'Brien
- Gustaf Adolf Olson
- John Terrence O'Neil
- Frederick Oliver Pierce
- Herbert Clarence (Bert) Ronan
- William George Russell
- Lionel Newton Savage
- Alfred Slee
- Mont Alexander Taylor
- Alfred Martin Tilly
- Norman Sedrick Tonkin
- Ralph Trotter
- Ronald Daniel Wallace
- Clarence Victor Watson
England to Fremantle 27 September - 12 November 1917
- Robert George McLean Post WW1 men