HMHS St David

HMHS St David

History
Name	HMHS St David
Owner	Fishguard & Rosslare Railway & Harbour Co, London
Builder	John Brown & Co, Clydebank
Yard number	370
Launched	25 Jan 1906
Completed	June 1906
In service	1906
Out of service	1933
Fate	Broken up 1933
General characteristics
Type	Passenger Ferry
Tonnage	2,531 tons
Length	350.8 ft (106.92m)
Beam	41.1 ft (12.53m)
Depth	24.3 ft (7.29m)
Propulsion	three screws
Capacity	563 x 1st class, 437 x 2nd class

Remarks

Built for the Great Western Railway to carry rail passengers from Fishguard to Rosslare (Ireland).

Fitted out as a Hospital Ship in August 1914, with a Medical staff of 4 Officers, 4 Nurses and 26 other ranks she could accommodate 14 Officer wounded, 23 enlisted men in Cots, and 157 in Berths. One of the few that served the entire war period from 19 Aug 1914 - 16 Jan 1919.

In 1925 she was re-engined. Renamed the Rosslare in 1932 and scrapped the following year.

Soldiers carried

Boulogne to England 4 August 1916

• Ernest Wells

Boulogne to England 31 Aug 1916

• William Augustus Povah

Boulogne to England 2 December 1916

• † Herbert Frank O'Neill

Rouen, France to England 16 May 1917

• Frederick Hobbs

Boulogne to England 8 June 1917

• Sylvanus Benjamin Buckland

France to England 12 June 1917

• Archibald Shepherd

France to England 23 June 1917

• Alfred Arthur Martin

Boulogne to England 3 July 1917

• James Lawrence McKenna

France to England 8 August 1917

• John Arthur Patterson MM

Rouen to England 16 August 1917

• Robert George McLean Post WW1 men

France to England 27 August 1917

• Matthew Harwood

France to England 30 August 1917

• Leonard George Morgan

France to England 28 April 1918

• William Francis Combs

France to England 23 October 1918

• Alfred Haddy Pearse