HMT Galeka
From Our Contribution
 | |
 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | HMT Galeka |
| Owner | Union Steamship Mail Steamship Co. |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Ltd, Belfast |
| Yard number | 347 |
| Launched | 21 Oct 1899 |
| Completed | 23 Dec 1899 |
| In service | January 1890 |
| Out of service | 28 Oct 1916 |
| Fate | struck mine and beached |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger / cargo |
| Tonnage | 6,767 tons |
| Length | 440 ft (134.11m) |
| Beam | 53 ft (16.15m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 12.5 knots (23.15 km/h) |
Contents
Remarks
Built for the Union-Castle Line and used on the South African route until World War 1, when she was used first as a troop ship carrying ANZAC troops to the Gallipoli campaign, and later as a Hospital Ship. As a Hospital Ship she could carry 366 wounded passengers.
On 28 Oct 1916, while a hospital ship, as she was entering Le Havre she hit a mine laid by the U-Boat UC-26. While no patients were aboard at the time, some 19 Royal Army medical Corps personnel perished. Although able to be beached at Cap la Hogue, she was a total loss.
Soldiers carried
Anzac Cove 2 May 1915
- William Edward Reed transfer to HMHS Delta 3 May 1915
- George Young transferred to HMHS Delta 3 May 1915