HMT Ausonia

History
Name	HMT Ausonia
Builder/Built	1909 Swan, Hunter & Wighan Richardson
Type	Passenger ship
Displacement	7,907 tons
Speed	12 knots

Remarks

Originally named Tortona, she was owned by the Thompson Line and used on the Canadian route with accommodation for 37 first class and 1,000 third class passengers. Sold in 1911 to the Cunard Steam Ship Line and renamed Ausonia. Cunard used her on their Trans Atlantic route to Canada until WW1.

Used during WW1 as a troopship, primarily in the Mediterranean until she was torpedoed and sunk by gunfire by U55 west of Fastnet on 30 May 1918, with the loss of 44 lives.

Mudros to Alexandria 6 - 10 Jan 1916

• Charles Barnett
• Frederick James Bishop
• Edward Briggs
• Arthur Percy Thomas Boyle
• Oswald Chorlton
• Charles Glyn Firns
• Walter Hayward
• John Hobbs
• Henry Richard Keefe
• Henry George Price
• Reginald Grove Sexty MID post WW1 man

Alexandria to Marseilles 28 April - 5 May 1916

• William Harrington Edward Watson