Difference between revisions of "HMHS Nevasa"
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Revision as of 20:26, 9 August 2022
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| History | |
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| Name | HMHS Nevasa |
| Builder | Barclay, Curle & Co, Glasgow |
| Yard number | 498 |
| Launched | 26 Dec 1912 |
| Completed | Mar 1913 |
| In service | Maiden voyage London/Calcutta March 1913. |
| Out of service | 1948 |
| Fate | Broken Up 25 Mar 1948 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger / cargo |
| Tonnage | 9,071 tons |
| Length | 480.4 ft (146.43m) |
| Beam | 58.1 ft (17.71m) |
| Depth | 30.8 ft (9.39m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 14 knots (25.93 km/h) |
Remarks
Built for British India Steam Navigation Co, for the UK - India route via Cape Town. She was taken over in Aug 1914 and used as a troopship until January 1915 when she was fitted out as a 660 bed Hospital Ship.
In 1918 her role changed to be a troopship again for US troops moving to Europe, and then repatriating troops to their home countries.
She was used by the British between the wars as a troopship, and continued in that role from 1925 right through WW2 until 1948 when she was scrapped.
Soldiers carried
World War I
Anzac Cove 15 July 1915
Gallipoli to Alexandria 7 - 10 November 1915
England to Fremantle 4 - 21 January 1919
England to Fremantle 5 March - 13 April 1919
World War II
During WWII the SS Nevasa operated as a troopship.
Fremantle to Kantara, Egypt 20 Apr - 17 May 1940
Code Name Y3. The 2/11th Battalion boarded her on 20 Apr 1940. Nevasa left the wharf at 12:10pm and anchored in Gage Roads, before sailing at 3:00pm on 22 Apr 1940. She arrived in Colombo 3 May 1940. While she arrived in Kantarra on 17 May, she did not disembark troops until the 19th.
- Walter Leonard Axford
- Geoffrey Gordon Benson
- Harry Wallace Benson
- Edward Charles (Ted) Fancote
- William Randall Foggon
- George Garratt
- Stanley Hubert Hancock
- William James Johnson
- Cornielius Harold (Con) Kerrison
- Kenneth Myers Kroenert
- Arthur Mitchell
- Maurice Gerard O'Brien
- † Mervyn Roy Parkin
- Charles Amos George Victor Petersen POW Crete
- Alfred George Playle
- James Percy Ray
- † Robert Summerfield