HMT Scotian

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History
Name	HMT Scotain
Builder/Built	1898 Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Displacement	10,322 tons

Remarks

Originally named the Statendam by the Holland America Line and used for the Rotterdam - New York route. She was renamed Scotian when acquired by the Allen Line in 1911.

In 1914 used as a troop ship, in 1915 as an accommodation ship for German POWs at Ryde Isle of Wright. During 1916 she made several voyages transferring Australian troops from Egypt to France.

Returned to her owners after the war, in 1922 she was renamed Marglen before being scrapped at Genoa in 1927.

Soldiers carried

Alexandria to Gallipoli 4 - 7 July 1915

• Alfred Cecil Clarence Curtis

Anzac Cove to Alexandria 16 - 19 August 1915

• Ronald Adolphous Julian Batt
• Ernest Wright Holroyd

Anzac Cove to Alexandria 22 - 25 August 1915

• Austin Faulkner moved to the district post WW1

Alexandria to Marseilles 10 - 18 May 1916

• Charles Bird
• Alexander Dowle

Alexandria to Marseilles 4 - 11 June 1916

• Richard Evans MM
• James Kershaw

France to England 29 Apr 1918

• Cecil Arthur Hill MM