HMAT A30 Borda
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History | |
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Name | HMAT A30 Borda |
Builder/Built | 1913 Caird & Company, Greenock |
Type | Passenger / cargo (refrigerated) |
Displacement | 11,136 tons |
Speed | 14 knots |
Contents
- 1 Remarks
- 2 Soldiers carried
- 3 Fremantle to Port Suez 26 April - ? May 1915
- 4 Alexandria to Mudros 18 - 21 October 1915
- 5 Port Suez to Fremantle 15 November - 13 December 1915
- 6 Fremantle to Port Suez 17 January - 9 February 1916
- 7 England to Fremantle 17 August - 16 September 1916
- 8 Fremantle to Plymouth 29 June - 25 August 1917
- 9 Plymouth to Fremantle 26 September - 12 November 1917
- 10 England to Fremantle 9 December 1919 - 19 January 1920
Remarks
Built for the Pacific & Orient Steam Navigation Company of London, and designed for the Australian emigrant service via Cape Town.
Leased by the Commonwealth until 10 Sep 1917 during which time it made 6 voyages from Australia with troops. On 19 Sep 1917 management was transferred to the British Admiralty. Part of the second convoy from Albany.
1920 returned to Australian service. Last trip from Australia in 1929, before being sold in April 1930 to Japan for demolition at Kobe.
Soldiers carried
Fremantle to Port Suez 26 April - ? May 1915
Alexandria to Mudros 18 - 21 October 1915
Port Suez to Fremantle 15 November - 13 December 1915
Fremantle to Port Suez 17 January - 9 February 1916
- James Barber
- Edward Patrick Barker
- George Edward Binns
- Donald Victor Chisholm
- Alexander Donald
- Charles Rudolff Dumps
- William Ellis boarded in Adelaide
- Frederick James Howard
- Thomas William Kerry
- Roderick McCaskill
- Patrick O'Flaherty
- John James Thorpe
- Ernest Wells
England to Fremantle 17 August - 16 September 1916
Fremantle to Plymouth 29 June - 25 August 1917
- Alan Harry Boyce
- William Alfred Gallant MBE
- John James Gill
- Alfred Gittins
- Clarence William Hammond
- Leslie Charles Hutchinson
- John Kiely
- James Lang
- Cecil Herbert McKeown
- John Laidlaw Paterson
- James Edward Richardson
- Robert Rueben Rodgers
- Albert Squire
- Daniel Malcolm Wann