HMAT A30 Borda
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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 |
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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. Part of the second convoy from Albany. Completed at least four voyages from Australia.
1920 returned to Australian service. Last trip from Australia in 1929, before being sold in 1930 to Japan for demolition at Kobe.
Soldiers carried
Fremantle to Port Suez 26 April - ? May 1915
Fremantle to Port Suez 17 January - 9 February 1916
- George Edward Binns
- Donald Victor Chisholm
- Alexander Donald
- Charles Rudolff Dumps
- William Ellis boarded in Adelaide
- Roderick McCaskill
- John James Thorpe Post WW1 men