HMS Sarnia
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | HMS Sarnia |
| Builder | Cammell Laird & Co, Birkenhead |
| Yard number | 765 |
| Launched | 9 Jul 1910 |
| Out of service | 12 Sep 1918 |
| Fate | Torpedoed and sunk |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Channel Packet |
| Tonnage | 1,505 tons |
| Length | 284.6 ft (86.75m) |
| Beam | 39.1 ft (11.92m) |
| Depth | 15.8 ft (4.82m) |
| Propulsion | triple screw steamer |
| Speed | 20 knots (37.04 km/h) |
| Capacity | crew of 48 |
Remarks
Built for the London and South Western Railway at a cost of £75,000. She plied the route to the Channel Islamds until the war was declared.
Requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914, she served primarily as an armed boarding vessel HMS Sarnia, although during the landings at Gallipoli she carried the Australian 28th Infantry Battalion from Mudross to Anzac Cove. On 28 Oct 1915 she collided with HMS Hythe in the Dardanelles, with the Hythe sinking with 154 deaths.
Sarnia was torpedoed by German U-Boat U-65 and sank just of Alexandria on 12 Sep 1918 with the loss of 53 men.
Soldiers carried
Mudros to Gallipoli 10 September 1915
- † William Barge
- † Charles Barnett
- William Michael Bowman
- Arthur Percy Thomas Boyle
- Edward Briggs
- † John McLeod Brown
- † Oswald Chorlton
- William Edward Clarence Green
- Walter Hayward
- Frederick Hobbs
- † John Hobbs
- † Stephen Henry Horrocks
- Henry Richard Keefe
- † Basil Kelley
- William Alfred Leaver MC MM
- † Harry Pickard
- Henry George Price
- Reginald Grove Sexty MID
- † Roland Parker Shelley