HMHS Rewa
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Built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company, and requisitioned for use as a Trop ship, and later as a Royal Naval Hospital Ship (YA5) during WW1. On 4 January 1918, while approaching the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, she was torpedoed and sunk by U_Boat U-55. She had sailed from Malta carrying 279 cot and walking wounded cases, and was fully illuminated as a Hospital Ship. Taking several hours to sink, casualties were light and all were saved except for four engine room crew killed in the explosion.