Difference between revisions of "HMT Corsican"
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Revision as of 23:40, 30 August 2021
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| Name | HMT Corsican |
| Builder/Built | 1907 Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
| Type | Passenger / refrigerated cargo |
Contents
Remarks
Built for the Allan Line, and used on the Liverpool to St John, New Brunswick route. On 12 Aug Corsican collided with an iceberg but suffered only monor damage. Taken over as a troops hip in August 1914, and used till 16 Jul 1917 when she was passed to the management of th Canadian Pacific Line. At the time she was wrecked (21 May 1923) on Cape Freels Rock, Newfoundland - no casualties, she had been renamed SS Margrave.
Soldiers carried
Alexandria to Marseilles 29 March - 5 April 1916
Boarding occurred on 28 March 1916. Arrived 3 April, but disembarked 5 April 1916.
- James Barber
- Percival (Peter) Clement Bassett
- Herbert Lewis Battams
- Arthur Charles Cam
- † Stanley Joseph Callow Champion
- Donald Victor Chisholm
- † Sidney Charles Clarke
- John Harold Coffen
- Aubrey Cecil Dawson
- † Frank William Dowell
- † Rudolf Eberhardt
- Frederick Fancote
- William Joseph Hayden
- Thomas Hetherington
- † Frederick James Howard
- † Arthur George Kettley
- Elmer Winfred Drake Laing MC
- Melbourne Hubert Randolph Matthews
- Frederick William Wallace Moore
- Herbert Frank O'Neill
- Hector Louis Polain
- Stephen Henry Robson
- William Edgar Rowe
- George Scrivener
- John Alexander Spilsbury
- William Stephens
- Arthur William Symonds
- James Thomson MM
- Albert Cornelius Jesse Verrier
Alexandria to Plymouth 29 May - 11 June 1916
- Frederick Fancote
- William Francis Clements
- William Ellis
- Sydney Charles Welch to France only ?