HMT Ivernia

HMT Ivernia

History
Name	HMT Ivernia
Owner	Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd. - British & North American RMSP Co - Cunard White Star Line.
Builder	Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson of Newcastle
Yard number	247
Launched	1899
Completed	1900
In service	14 Apr 1900
Out of service	1 Jan 1917
Fate	Torpedoed and fondered
General characteristics
Type	Passenger Liner - immigrants
Tonnage	13,799 tons
Length	600 ft (180 m)
Beam	64 ft (20 m)
Depth	37 ft 98 in (11.5m)
Propulsion	twin screw
Speed	15 knots (27.78 km/h)
Capacity	1,964 passengers - (164 x 1st Class, 200 Sx 2nd, 1,600 x 3rd)

Remarks

Owned by Cunard Steam Ship Company. he made her maiden voyage, from Liverpool to New York, on 14 April 1900. Two months later she was placed on the Liverpool-Boston route for which she was intended, and remained on that route until December 1911. Ivernia was then placed on a Trieste-New York route and remained there until World War I, except for the winter of 1912-13, when she returned to the Boston-Liverpool route.

She was taken over as a troopship in September 1914.

Ivernia was torpedoed and sunk on New Year's Day 1917 by German U Boat-47 off Cape Matapan, Greece while carrying 2,400 Scottish troops from Marseilles to Alexandria. Eighty five soldiers and thirty six crew died.

Alexandria to Mudros 4 - 7 September 1915

On 10 Sep 1915 all boarded HMT Sarnia for the journey to Anzac Cove

• † William Barge
• † Charles Barnett
• William Michael Bowman
• Arthur Percy Thomas Boyle
• Edward Briggs
• † John McLeod Brown
• † Oswald Chorlton
• William Edward Clarence Green
• Walter Hayward
• Frederick Hobbs
• † John Hobbs
• † Stephen Henry Horrocks
• Henry Richard Keefe
• † Basil Kelley
• William Alfred Leaver MC MM
• † Harry Pickard
• Henry George Price
• Reginald Grove Sexty MID
• † Roland Parker Shelley
• Arnold Thorp

England to Alexandria ?? - 16 February 1916

• John Donald Stalker

Alexandria to Marseilles France 22 - 28 Mar 1916

• Alfred Warburton Chapman (Jnr)

Alexandria to Marseilles 5 - 12 June 1916

• Edward Patrick Barker
• George Edward Binns
• Clyde Bird
• Thomas Bird
• † John McLeod Brown
• William Edward Butcher MM RMG MID
• Victor Norman Chandler MM
• † Bernard William Chatfield
• Henry Thomas Cockram
• George Sidney Cook
• Francis Crowe
• † Walter Edward Dalziell
• Charles Henry Davis
• Gordon Devereux MM post WW1 men
• Alexander Donald
• Victor Emanuel Durling
• Albert John Egan MID
• † Charles Maul Glover
• † John Francis Grabham MM
• † John Huntley
• Walter David Francis Kerridge
• Thomas William Kerry
• Alexander Russell Main
• † Leonard Roy Matthews
• Charles Frederick McKay
• † Keith George Harman Podger
• † Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor
• † Lawrence Adrian Renou DCM
• Francis Henry Ryniker
• Henry Giles Schmidt
• † Ernest Selkirk MID
• Frederick Selkirk
• † Frank Leslie Sexton