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HMT Caledonia

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History
Name HMT Caledonia
Builder/Built 1904 D & W Henderson Ltd, Glasgow
Type Steamship
Displacement 9,223 tons


Remarks

Owned by the Anchor Line, and requisitioned in August 1914 as a troop ship.

She was sunk 4 Dec 1916 by U-Boat U65 in the Mediterranean Sea, 125 miles east of Malta

Soldiers carried

Gallipoli to Alexandria 7 - 10 August 1915

Mudros to England 24 -31 August 1915

Alexandria to Gibraltar (via Mudros?) 7 - 15 October 1915

Mudros to Alexandria 24 - 27 December 1915

Alexandria to Marseilles 4 - 10 May 1916

Alexandria to Marseilles 2-9 June 1916

Alexandria to Marseilles 20 - 29 June 1916

Alexandria to Marseilles 2 - 9 August 1916