HMT Golden Eagle

HMT Golden Eagle

History
Name	HMT Golden Eagle
Owner	The General Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London
Builder	John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank
Yard number	386
Launched	17 Apr 1909
Completed	9 Jun 1909
In service	1909
Out of service	1949
Fate	brolen up 1951
General characteristics
Type	Steal Paddle Steamer
Tonnage	793 tons

Remarks

Built for The General Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London. Used for troop transport during WW1, with an incomplete conversion to minelayer halted in 1918.

In Jan 1940 she was requisitioned as an anti-aircraft ship for the Dunkirk evacuation. Later used as an accommodation ship, before returning to its owners in June 1945. Laid up 1949, and broken up in 1951 by T W Ward Ltd at Grays, Essex.

Soldiers carried

Folkestone to Étaples 11 November 1916

• William George Russell

Folkestone to Étaples 10 December 1916

• † Richard John James Bransby

Folkestone to Étaples 17 December 1916

• Thomas Kinsman Bickell
• Cecil Walter Challis
• Charles Henry Partridge
• William George Rosekelly

Folkestone to Étaples 25 February 1917

• Benjamin Jones
• John Arthur Patterson MM
• Thomas Ramsell
• Thomas Edward Tyrell Marshall Post WW1 men
• James Thomson MM

Folkestone to Étaples 28 February 1917

• † George Rowland Benton
• Charles Rudolff Dumps
• James Francis Ottaway
• John Henry Whitfield