HMAT A9 Shropshire

History
Name	HMAT A9 Shropshire
Builder/Built	1911 John Brown, Clydebank
Type	Passenger / cargo steamship (twin screw)
Displacement	11,911 tons
Speed	14 knots

Remarks

Built for the Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London, and employed on passenger and meat trade between New Zealand and Britain. Leased by the Commonwealth until 5 Aug 1917 when control passed to the British Admiralty. Was a member of the first convoy from Albany to Alexandria. Completed seven voyages from Australia.

In 1923 was renamed Rotorua for the New Zealand Shipping Co. Became a casualty of WW2, being torpedoed by a submarine in the North Atlantic on 11 Dec 1940.

Melbourne to Alexandria

• Thomas Herbert Ludlow

Fremantle to Port Suez 31 March - 24 Apr 1916

• Charles Bird
• John Arthur Butcher
• Arthur Candish
• Frank Ernest Cousens
• Herbert William Coxhead
• William Moore Crellin
• Alexander Dowle
• William Arthur Green
• Robert Sang Herd
• John William King
• William Augustus Povah
• Edward Walter Tatam
• Hobart Turner