Re: Troop Ships Australian - Part 2 Re: Troop Ships Australian - Part 2 From: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Transports.html A 61. HMAT Kanowna 6,942 tons. 14 knots. AUSN Co Ltd London. Manned by Australia officers and crew. Commonwealth control ended 18 March 1919. A 62. HMAT Wandilla 7,785 tons. 16 knots. Adelaide SS Co Ltd Adelaide. Manned by Australian officers and (during part of her service) Australian crews. Commonwealth control ended 24 January 1917. A 63. HMAT Karoola 7,391 tons. 15 knots. McIlwraith, McEacharn's Line Pty Ltd, Melbourne. Manned by Australian officers and crews. Commonwealth control ended June 1919 A 64. HMAT Demosthenes 11,223 tons. 15 knots. G Thompson & Co Ltd London Commonwealth control ended 16 March1917. A 65. HMAT Clan Macewen 5,140 tons. 15 knots. Cayser, Irvin and Co. Glasgow Commonwealth control ended 14 April1917. A 66. HMAT Uganda 5,431 tons. 10 knots. British India SN Co Ltd London Commonwealth control ended 4 December 1916. Torpedoed and sunk by a submarine in Mediterranean 27 May 1918 A 67. HMAT Orsova 12,036 tons. 18 knots. Orient SN Co Ltd London Commonwealth control ended 28 February 1917. A 68. HMAT Anchisses 10,046 tons. 10 knots. Ocean SS Co Ltd, Liverpool Commonwealth control ended 12 October 1917. A 69. HMAT Warilda 7,713 tons. 16 knots. Adelaide SS Co Ltd Adelaide. Manned by Australian officers and (during part of her service) Australian crews. Torpedoed and sunk by a submarine in the English Channel 3 August1918 A 70. HMAT Ballarat 11,120 tons. 14 knots. P & O SN Co London Torpedoed by a submarine in the English Channel 25 April 1917 and sank the next day. A 71. HMAT Nestor 14,501 tons. 14 knots. Ocean SS Co Ltd, Liverpool Commonwealth control ended 26 June1917. A 72. HMAT Beltana 11,120 tons. 14 knots. P & O SN Co London Commonwealth control ended 14 September 1917. A 73. HMAT Commonwealth 6,616 tons. 14 knots. P & O SN Co London Commonwealth control ended 23 June 1917 A 74. HMAT Marathon 7,827 tons. 16 knots. G Thompson & Co Ltd London Commonwealth control ended 28 July1917. Royal Mail Steamers These ships carried mail between Australia and the United Kingdom. Occasionally, they carried small numbers of passengers as well, including, on occasion, troops. The following Royal Mail Steamers carried troops of the First AIF: RMS Kashgar RMS Karmala RMS Malwa RMS Moldavia RMS Mongolia RMS Mooltan RMS Morea RMS Orontes RMS Osterley RMS Persia Steam Ships Sometimes chartered steam ships were employed as troop transports. These ones carried troops of the First AIF: SS Balmoral Castle SS Canberra SS Carpentaria SS City of Karachi SS Dorset SS Essex SS Field Marshal SS Gaika SS Graechus SS Hawkes Bay SS Kaiser-i-Hind SS Indarra SS Katoomba SS Mahana SS Makarini 10,624 tons, 13 knots. G.D.Tyser & Co, London Accommodation for 750-steerage class passengers. Built by Workman, Clark & Co, Belfast, she was launched on 3rd Feb.1912. In 1914 Tyser's was taken over by the Commonwealth & Dominion Line (Port Line) and she was renamed SS Port Nicholson. Mined and sunk 15 miles West of Dunkirk 15 January1917. [Great Passenger Ships of the World by Arnold Kludas, vol.1, ISBN 0-85059-174-0, which contains a photo of the ship] [Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.21, Port Line] SS Malta SS Ormonde SS Pakeha SS Port Darwin SS Port Lydelton SS Port Napier SS Port Nicholson See SS Makarini SS Rushine SS Wyreema SS Zealandic
I found this on HMAT Warilda ..... HMAT Warilda, 7713 tons, was handed over by the Australian Government to the British in 1916 and converted to an Ambulance Transport ship. On the 3rd August 1918, on passage from Le Havre to Southampton, she was torpedoed by UC 49. She was fully laden with 614 patients, 70 RAMC staff and a crew of 117. She was hit between the engine room and No 4 hold and the torpedo explosion not only killed the engineers but also 101 patients lying in an improvised ward in the hold. She sank by the stern and 113 patients, 1 nurse and 2 RAMC staff perished.
