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HMT Takada

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HMT Takada
HMAT Takada.jpg
courtesy Victorian State Library
HMAT Takada 1.jpg
Homeward bound c1918 - AWM H01715
History
Name HMAT Takada
Owner British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Glasgow
Builder Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow
Yard number 457
Launched 27 Dec 1913
Completed March 1914
In service 1914
Out of service 1938
Fate scrapped 29 Aug 1938
General characteristics
Type passenger / cargo
Tonnage 6,949 tons
Length 430 ft (131.06m)
Beam 58 ft (17.68m)
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 13.5 knots (25.0 kmph)



Remarks

Owned by the British India Steam Navigation Company of Glasgow. Used on the trade routes to the far east from Britain in the late 1920's and 1930's.


The Takada was requisitioned and converted to act as a hospital ship during the war (10 Aug 1915 - 29 Apr 1919). She also made at least two trips to Australia as HMAT Takada, returning convalescent men soon after the war ended. Scrapped in Belgium in late 1938.

Soldiers carried

England to Fremantle 24 December 1918 - 1 February 1919

England to Fremantle 18 July - 29 August 1919