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| shipname = HMT Ivernia
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| shipowner = Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd. - British & North American RMSP Co - Cunard White Star Line.
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| shipbuilder = Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson of Newcastle
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| shipyardnumber = 247
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| shiplaunched = 1899
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| shipcompleted = 1900
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| shipinservice = 14 Apr 1900
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| shipoutofservice = 1 Jan 1917
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| shipID = RNJD
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| shipfate = Torpedoed and fondered
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| shiptype = Passenger Liner - immigrants
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| shiptonnage = 13,799 tons
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| shiplength = 600 ft (180 m)
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| shipbeam = 64 ft (20 m)
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| shipdepth = 37 ft 98 in (11.5m)
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| shippropulsion = twin screw
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| shipspeed = 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
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| shipcapacity = 1,964 passengers - (164 x 1st Class, 200 Sx 2nd, 1,600 x 3rd)
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==Remarks==
 
 
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Owned by Cunard Steam Ship Company. he made her maiden voyage, from Liverpool to New York, on 14 April 1900. Two months later she was placed on the Liverpool-Boston route for which she was intended, and remained on that route until December 1911. Ivernia was then placed on a Trieste-New York route and remained there until World War I, except for the winter of 1912-13, when she returned to the Boston-Liverpool route. 
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==Remarks==
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She was taken over as a troopship in September 1914.
  
Owned by Cunard Steam Ship Company and used pre war on the Liverpool to New York or Boston routes.  It was taken over as a troopship in September 1914.
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Ivernia was torpedoed and sunk on New Year's Day 1917 by German U Boat-47 off Cape Matapan, Greece while carrying 2,400 Scottish troops from Marseilles to Alexandria. Eighty five soldiers and thirty six crew died.
 
 
Ivernia was torpedoed and sunk on New Year's Day 1917 by U Boat-47 off Cape Matapan, Greece.
 
85 soldiers and 35 crew died.
 
  
 
==Soldiers carried==
 
==Soldiers carried==
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On 10 Sep 1915 all boarded [[HMT Sarnia]] for the journey to Anzac Cove
 
On 10 Sep 1915 all boarded [[HMT Sarnia]] for the journey to Anzac Cove
*[[William Barge]]
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* [[William Barge]]
*[[Charles Barnett]]
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* [[Charles Barnett]]
*[[William Bowman]]
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* [[William Michael Bowman]]
*[[Arthur Percy Thomas Boyle]]
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* [[Arthur Percy Thomas Boyle]]
*[[Edward Briggs]]
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* [[Edward Briggs]]
*[[Oswald Chorlton]]
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* † [[John McLeod Brown]]
*[[William Edward Clarence Green]]
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* † [[Oswald Chorlton]]
*[[Walter Hayward]]
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* [[William Edward Clarence Green]]
*[[Frederick Hobbs]]
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* [[Walter Hayward]]
*[[Stephen Henry Horrocks]]
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* [[Frederick Hobbs]]
*[[Henry Richard Keefe]]
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* † [[John Hobbs]]
*[[Basil Kelley]]
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* † [[Stephen Henry Horrocks]]
*[[Harry Pickard]]
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* [[Henry Richard Keefe]]
*[[Henry George Price]]
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* [[Basil Kelley]]
*[[Reginald Grove Sexty MID]]
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* [[William Alfred Leaver MC MM]]
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* † [[Harry Pickard]]
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* [[Henry George Price]]
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* [[Reginald Grove Sexty MID]]
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* † [[Roland Parker Shelley]]
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* [[Arnold Thorp]]
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==England to Alexandria ?? - 16 February 1916==
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*[[John Donald Stalker]]
  
 
==Alexandria to Marseilles France 22 - 28 Mar 1916==
 
==Alexandria to Marseilles France 22 - 28 Mar 1916==
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==Alexandria to Marseilles 5 - 12 June 1916==
 
==Alexandria to Marseilles 5 - 12 June 1916==
*[[Edward Patrick Barker]]
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* [[Edward Patrick Barker]]
*[[George Edward Binns]]
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* [[George Edward Binns]]
*[[Clyde Bird]]
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* [[Clyde Bird]]
*[[Thomas Bird]]
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* [[Thomas Bird]]
*[[John McLeod Brown]]
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* [[John McLeod Brown]]
*[[Victor Norman Chandler MM]]
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* [[William Edward Butcher MM RMG MID]]
*[[Bernard William Chatfield]]
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* [[Victor Norman Chandler MM]]
*[[Henry Thomas Cockram]]
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* [[Bernard William Chatfield]]
*[[George Sydney Cook]]
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* [[Henry Thomas Cockram]]
*[[Francis Crowe]]
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* [[George Sidney Cook]]
*[[Gordon Devereux MM]] post WW1 men
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* [[Francis Crowe]]
*[[Alexander Donald]]
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* † [[Walter Edward Dalziell]]
*[[Victor Emanuel Durling]]
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* [[Charles Henry Davis]]
*[[Albert John Egan MID]]
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* [[Gordon Devereux MM]] post WW1 men
*[[Charles Maul Glover]]
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* [[Alexander Donald]]
*[[John Francis Grabham MM]]
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* [[Victor Emanuel Durling]]
*[[John Huntley]]
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* [[Albert John Egan MID]]
*[[Walter David Francis Kerridge]]
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* [[Charles Maul Glover]]
*[[Thomas William Kerry]]
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* [[John Francis Grabham MM]]
*[[Alexander Russell Main]]
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* [[John Huntley]]
*[[Leonard Roy Matthews]]
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* [[Walter David Francis Kerridge]]
*[[Keith George Harman Podger]]
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* [[Thomas William Kerry]]
*[[Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor]]
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* [[Alexander Russell Main]]
*[[Francis Henry Ryniker]]
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* [[Leonard Roy Matthews]]
*[[Ernest Selkirk MID]]
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* [[Charles Frederick McKay]]
*[[Frederick Selkirk]]
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* † [[Keith George Harman Podger]]
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* [[Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor]]
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* † [[Lawrence Adrian Renou DCM]]
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* [[Francis Henry Ryniker]]
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* [[Henry Giles Schmidt]]
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* † [[Ernest Selkirk MID]]
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* [[Frederick Selkirk]]
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* † [[Frank Leslie Sexton]]
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[[Category:Ships]]
 
[[Category:Ships]]

Latest revision as of 20:20, 7 July 2022

HMT Ivernia
HMT Ivernia.jpg
HMT Ivernia 1.jpg
History
Name HMT Ivernia
Owner Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd. - British & North American RMSP Co - Cunard White Star Line.
Builder Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson of Newcastle
Yard number 247
Launched 1899
Completed 1900
In service 14 Apr 1900
Out of service 1 Jan 1917
Fate Torpedoed and fondered
General characteristics
Type Passenger Liner - immigrants
Tonnage 13,799 tons
Length 600 ft (180 m)
Beam 64 ft (20 m)
Depth 37 ft 98 in (11.5m)
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
Capacity 1,964 passengers - (164 x 1st Class, 200 Sx 2nd, 1,600 x 3rd)



Remarks

Owned by Cunard Steam Ship Company. he made her maiden voyage, from Liverpool to New York, on 14 April 1900. Two months later she was placed on the Liverpool-Boston route for which she was intended, and remained on that route until December 1911. Ivernia was then placed on a Trieste-New York route and remained there until World War I, except for the winter of 1912-13, when she returned to the Boston-Liverpool route.


She was taken over as a troopship in September 1914.

Ivernia was torpedoed and sunk on New Year's Day 1917 by German U Boat-47 off Cape Matapan, Greece while carrying 2,400 Scottish troops from Marseilles to Alexandria. Eighty five soldiers and thirty six crew died.

Soldiers carried

Alexandria to Mudros 4 - 7 September 1915

On 10 Sep 1915 all boarded HMT Sarnia for the journey to Anzac Cove

England to Alexandria ?? - 16 February 1916

Alexandria to Marseilles France 22 - 28 Mar 1916

Alexandria to Marseilles 5 - 12 June 1916