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Revision as of 12:32, 22 April 2017

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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

Sydney to Alexandra 20 Oct 1914 - 3 Dec 1914

Edgar Leslie Livermore

Sydney to New York 1 May 1918 - 14 Jun 1918

Edward Stanley James

Return to Fremantle 3 Mar 1919 - 10 Apr 1919

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