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History
Name HMAT A14 Euripides
Builder/Built 1914 Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Type Passenger / cargo steamship (triple screw)
Displacement 14,947 tons
Speed 13 knots


Remarks

Built for G Thompson & Co Ltd, Glasgow, she was on her maiden voyage to Brisbane when war broke out. Requisitioned two days after her arrival by the Commonwealth, whose control ended 2 Jun 1917.

A member of the first convoy from Albany, she completed seven voyages from Australia with troops. In 1919 she was used to repatriate Australian troops and during the period 1914 - 1919 she carried 38,439 troops to or from the war.

Post war she was overhauled and resumed the Aberdeen Line's London - Australia route, before changing hands several times between wars.

During WW2 she was again used as a troopship before another transformation in 1945 back to civilian use before being sent to shipbreakers in Antwerp in May 1954.

List of soldiers carried

Victor Leo Gordon Boyle
Albert George Bullock
Arthur Charles Cam
Gordon Vidgen Cross