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HMHS Grantully Castle

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Hospital train in foreground transferring patients
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

24 Jan 1917

Richard Beattie

27 Apr 1917

William Thomas Saw

14 Jun 1917

Charles Fielder

24 Oct 1917

Albert William Barratt

21 Jun 1918

Arthur James Allen

6 Jul 1918

Robert Frank Bickford

16 Jul 1918

Alfred Gittins