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History
Name HMHS Gloucester Castle
Builder/Built 1911 Fairfields S&E, Glasgow
Type Passenger and general cargo ship
Displacement 7,999 tons
Speed 13 knots


Remarks

Built for the Union-Castle Line, requisitioned for use as a Hospital Ship. She was torpedoed by U-Boat UB32 on 31 Mar 1917 off the Isle of Wright, but able to be salvaged and after the war returned to civilian service.

In 1942 she was sunk by the German commerce raider Michel off Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

Soldiers carried

Mudross to Malta 11 - 20 July 1915

Mudros to Alexandria 1 - 2 September 1915

Gallipoli to Mudros 23 September 1915

France to England 2 August 1918

France to England 5 October 1918

France to England 28 October 1918