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HMT Karoa
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History
Name HMT Karoa
Owner British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd
Builder Swan, Hunter and Wigham RIchardson Ltd., Tyneside
Launched December 1914
In service 1915
General characteristics
Type Passenger / cargo
Tonnage 6,631 tons



Remarks

Owned by the British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd. She carried 44 first class passengers, and 64 in second class. requisitioned by the Admiralty from March 1915 until 1919 and used as a troop ship, before returning to civil service.


During WW2, she again entered military service, this time initially as a store ship before being converted into a hospital ship in March 1944. On the completion of her duties as a hospital ship she returned to her owners in 1946, ahead of being broken up in Bombay during 1950.

Soldiers carried WW I

Malta to Alexandria 12 - 14 August 1915

England to Alexandria 8 - 12 September 1915

England to Alexandria October 1915

Gallipoli to Alexandria 20 - 26 December 1915

Alexandria to Southampton 18 December 1917 - 5 January 1918

England to Fremantle 28 March - 8 May 1919

Soldiers carried WW II

Singapore to Fremantle 29 October - 7 November 1945