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{{Infobox ship
| image          = [[File:HMHS_Dieppe.jpg|border|600px]]
| caption        = 
| image2         = [[File:HMHS_Dieppe_1.jpg]]
| caption2       = ''Dieppe'' in hospital livery
| shipname = HMHS Dieppe
| shipowner = London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 
| shipbuilder = Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Ltd, Govan
| shipyardnumber = 439
| shiplaunched = 5 April 1905
| shipcompleted = May 1905
| shipinservice = May 1905
| shipoutofservice = 18 March 1941
| shipinservice2 =	
| shipoutofservice2 =
| shipreclassified =	
| shipID = HCRB
| shipfate = Struck a mine and sank
| shiptype =	
| shiptonnage = 1,210 tons
| shiplength = 273 ft 5 in (83.34 m)
| shipbeam = 34 ft 8 in (10.57 m)
| shipdepth = 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m)
| shippropulsion = Three screws	
| shipspeed =	22 knots (40.74 km/h)
| shipcapacity =
}}


==Remarks==
Dieppe was a steam passenger ferry that was built in 1905 for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. She was requisitioned during the First World War for use as a troopship and later as a hospital ship ''HMHS Dieppe'', returning to her owners postwar. On 27 February 1916 she took aboard over 100 survivors from the 12,431 GRT P&O passenger liner Maloja, which was sunk by a mine off Dover.


She passed to the Southern Railway on 1 January 1923 and soon after on 27 November 1924 Dieppe had a mishap in which she ended up hitting the breakwater at Newhaven Harbour stern first. The tugs ''Alert'' and ''Richmere'' were sent to her aid. ''Richmere'' became disabled when a cable became entangled around her propeller. The Newhaven lifeboat was sent to her aid.However, ''Richmere'' ended up being dashed against the harbour wall and sank. Her crew were rescued by the lifeboat and the tug was later raised and repaired. Dieppe managed to dock some five hours after the drama began.


In 1933 she was sold to W E Guinness and converted to a private diesel yacht, ''Rosaura''. She was requisitioned in the Second World War for use as an armed boarding vessel, ''HMS Rosaura''. Her end came when she struck a mine and sank off Tobruk, Libya on 18 March 1941.

==Soldiers carried==

==Calais to England 10 July 1916==
*[[William Carroll]]

==France to England 26 July 1916==
*[[John James Thorpe]]

==France to England 31 July 1916==
*[[Albert Cornelius Jesse Verrier]]

==France to England 10 February 1917==
*[[William James Allen]]

==Calais to England 6 March 1917==
*[[Charles Henry Partridge]]

==Calais to England 14 March 1917==
*[[Walter David Francis Kerridge]]


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