HMHS Grantully Castle
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Hospital train in foreground transferring patients | |
History | |
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Name | HMHS Grantully Castle |
Builder/Built | 1909 Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow |
Type | Hospital Ship |
Displacement | 7,606 tons |
Speed | 13 knots |
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Owned by the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company of London.
Operated as a Hospital Ship from 22 Jun 1915 till 11 Mar 1919. Medical staff carried included 10 Officers, 15 Nurses and 59 Orderlies/others. Was able to accommodate 18 Officers, 184 Cots, 358 Berths.
On 11 Mar 1919 it was returned to the Union-Castle Line. Scrapped in 1939