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History
Name HMHS Grantully Castle
Builder/Built 1909 Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow
Type Hospital Ship
Displacement 7,606 tons
Speed 13 knots


Remarks

Owned by the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company of London.

Operated as a Hospital Ship from 22 Jun 1915 till 11 Mar 1919. Medical staff carried included 10 Officers, 15 Nurses and 59 Orderlies/others. Was able to accommodate 18 Officers, 184 Cots, 358 Berths.

On 11 Mar 1919 it was returned to the Union-Castle Line. Scrapped in 1939

List of soldiers carried

William James Allen
Albert William Barratt
Richard Beattie
Robert Frank Bickford
Charles Fielder
Alfred Gittins

21 Jun 1918

Arthur James Allen