RMS Mongolia

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History
Name	RMS Mongolia
Builder/Built	1891 D & W Henderson, Glasgow
Type	Passenger / cargo steamer (Single screw)
Displacement	4,838 tons
Speed	13 knots

Remarks

In civilian mode she had accommodation for 100 first class passengers, 80 second class, and 1,000 third class passengers. Previously used on the UK - North American routes, in 1915 she was sold to the British Admiralty. Operated by Indian & Peninsular S.N. Co., Bombay. On 21st Jul.1918 she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC.70 while 5 miles off Filey Brig on voyage Middlesbrough to London, with the loss of 36 lives.

Soldiers carried

Fremantle to Port Suez 22 November - 14 December 1915

• Percival (Peter) Clement Bassett
• Frank Orlando Dawson
• Frank William Dowell
• Rudolf Eberhardt
• Charles Franklyn Fuhrmann
• John Francis Grabham MM
• Edward Henry Hanrahan
• William Joseph Hayden
• Herbert George Lewis
• Melbourne Hubert Randolph Matthews
• Lawrence Adrian Renou DCM
• George Scrivener
• Amos Roy (Roy) Smith
• Edward Harris (Ted) Smith
• Albert Cornelius Jesse Verrier
• William Charles Woodland

Fremantle to Port Suez 17 July - 18 August 1916=

• Edward Henson Broadhurst
• Walter Cattach

Egypt to Fremantle 31 March - 24 May 1919

• Herbert Sherwood Marsh