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From: "Jan & Peter Herivel" <>
Subject: RE: [AUS-AIF-1914-1919 ] AIF TROOPSHIP TRANSPORTS
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 14:40:50 +1100
In-Reply-To: <LOBBLDPKKCBONAEKBLOLAEPMFAAA.forever_fossicking@bigpond.com>


Hi everyone

Ross Mallett's site is a wonderful source for transports (as well as other
topics), I have used it extensively to find out not only what ship the
person was on, but cross referenced it with the battalion information to
find out what reinforcement group the person belonged to. Ross's site is
often my first port of call when I came looking for AIF information. The
URL is below:
http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Cheeseman [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, 30 November 2002 2:50 PM
To:
Subject: [AUS-AIF-1914-1919 ] AIF TROOPSHIP TRANSPORTS


Forwarded with permission for information of list members who may be
interested.

HMAT = His Majesty's Auxiliary Transport
RMS = Royal Mail Ship
SS = Steam Ship

Full listing of the Troopships names after these:

Clan MacCorquodale - Torpedoed in eastern Mediterranean on 19.11.1917
Ballarat - Torpedoed 25.2.1917; no loss
Barunga - Former German ship 'Sumatra'. On 15.7.1918 was
torpedoed
off the Scilly Isles. All 855 invalided troops taken
off
before she sank.
Berrima - Formerly HMAS Berrima and armed merchant cruiser was
torpedoed on 18.11.1916 and again on 18.2.1917.
Boonah - Former German liner 'Melbourne' sank a German submarine
off Eris Head, Ireland on 10.3.1917.
Boorara - Former German ship 'Pfalz'. Captured after fired on by
guns at Fort Queenscliff, Victoria on 5.8.1914. (First
shots of the war)
Kyarra - Torpedoed and sunk my German Submarine on 26.5.1918.
Marere - Attacked and sunk by German submarine 236 miles from
Malta
on 18 January 1916.
Wandilla - In 1916 she was fitted out as a hospital ship and and
carried
wounded from France and Belgium to England. During WW2
she was
used by the Italians as a hospital ship.

**** The above facts extracted from 'Historic Naval Events of Australia Day
by Day' by Lew Lin

Ship Serial No.

Aenas HMAT A60
Afric HMAT A19
Ajana HMAT A31
Anchises HMAT A68
Anglo Egyptian HMAT A25
Argyllshire HMAT A8
Armadale HMAT A26
Ascanius HMAT A11
Ayrshire HMAT A33
Bakara HMAT A41
Ballarat HMAT A70
Barambah HMAT A37
Barunga HMAT A43
Beltana HMAT A72
Benalla HMAT A24
Berrima HMAT A35
Boonah HMAT A36
Boorara HMAT A42
Borda HMAT A30
Botanist HMAT A59
Buila HMAT A45
Carpentaria SS
Ceramic HMAT A40
Chilka HMAT A51
Clan MacCorquodale HMAT A6
Clan MacEwen HMAT A65
Clan MacGillivray HMAT A46
Commonwealth HMAT A73
Demosthenes HMAT A64
Euripides HMAT A14
Geelong HMAT A2
Hawkes Bay SS
Hororata HMAT A20
Hymettus HMAT A1
Indarra SS
Itonus HMAT A50
Itria HMAT A53
Kabinga HMAT A58
Kanowna HMAT A61
Karoola HMAT A63
Karroo HMAT A10
Katuna HMAT A13
Kyarra HMAT A55
Makarini SS
Malakuta HMAT A57
Malta SS
Malwa RMS
Marathon HMAT A74
Marere HMAT A21
Mashobra HMAT A47
Medic HMAT A7
Medina RMS
Melusia SS
Miltiades HMAT A28
Mongolia RMS
Mooltan RMS
Morea RMS
Nestor HMAT A71
Omrah HMAT A5
Ormonde RMS
Orontes RMS
Orsova HMAT A67
Orvieto HMAT A3
Osterley RMS
Palermo HMAT A56
Pera HMAT A4
Persia RMS
Persic HMAT A34
Port Darwin SS
Port Lincoln HMAT A17
Port Macquarie HMAT A39
Port Melbourne HMAT A16
Port Sydney HMAT A15
Rangitara HMAT A22
Runic HMAT A54
Saldanha HMAT A12
Seeang Bee HMAT A48
Seeang Choon HMAT A49
Shropshire HMAT A9
Somali SS
Southern HMAT A27
Star of England HMAT A15
Star of Victoria HMAT A16
Suevic HMAT A29
Suffolk HMAT A23
Surada HMAT A52
Themistocoles HMAT A32
Uganda HMAT A66
Ulysses HMAT A38
Vastalia HMAT A44
Wandilla HMAT A62
Warilda HMAT A69
Wiltshire HMAT A18
Zealandic SS

regards

Michael Cheeseman
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