HMS Osmanieh
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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Osmanieh |
| Builder/Built | 1906 Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson |
| Type | Passenger and cargo |
| Displacement | 4,041 tons |
| Speed | 17.5 knots |
Remarks
Owned by the Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Co, Ltd. It served in 1916 as a troopship and supply ship for the Royal Navy in the First World War. On December 31, 1917, the Osmanieh struck a mine laid by the Imperial German Naval U-boat SM UC-34 and sank at Alexandria, Egypt with the loss of 209 lives.
Soldiers carried
28th Battalion from Mudros to Alexandria 6 - 10 Jan 1916