HMHS Grantully Castle
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Hospital train in foreground transferring patients | |
History | |
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Name | HMHS Grantully Castle |
Builder/Built | 1909 Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow |
Type | Hospital Ship |
Displacement | 7,606 tons |
Speed | 13 knots |
Contents
- 1 Remarks
- 2 Soldiers carried
- 3 France to England 24 January 1917
- 4 France to England 27 April 1917
- 5 France to England 20 May 1917
- 6 Le Havre to England 14 June 1917
- 7 France to England 24 October 1917
- 8 France to England 21 June 1918
- 9 France to England 6 July 1918
- 10 France to England 16 July 1918
- 11 France to England 24 August 1918
Remarks
Owned by the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company of London.
Operated as a Hospital Ship from 22 Jun 1915 till 11 Mar 1919. Medical staff carried included 10 Officers, 15 Nurses and 59 Orderlies/others. Was able to accommodate 18 Officers, 184 Cots, 358 Berths.
On 11 Mar 1919 it was returned to the Union-Castle Line. Scrapped in 1939
Soldiers carried
France to England 24 January 1917
France to England 27 April 1917
France to England 20 May 1917
- Robert George McLean Post WW1 men