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Revision as of 01:03, 25 July 2018
History | |
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Name | HMAT A28 Miltiades |
Builder/Built | 1903 Alex Stephen & Sons, Glasgow. |
Type | SS Troopship |
Displacement | 7,814 tons |
Speed | 13 knots |
Contents
Remarks
Requisitioned as a troopship in 1915. On 1 Nov 1914 arrived in Albany to become one of the ships in the 1st Convoy. 7 Feb 1916 carried Medical Officers from Adelaide, and on 1 Aug 1916, Medical Officers from Melbourne, stopping in Fremantle for more of the same on 9 Aug 1916. On 24 Jan 1917 Medical Officers from Adelaide, and on 2 Aug 1917 more of the same from Sydney.
Commonwealth control ended 15 Sep 1917 when the Miltiades was transferred to the British Admiralty. Resumed commercial service in June 1920. Purchased by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and renamed ORCANA. She later served with the Pacific Steam Navigation Company for their South American service. She was laid up from 1923 to 1924 before being scrapped in Holland.
Soldiers carried
Fremantle to Port Suez 12 February - 11 March 1916
- Clyde Bird
- Thomas Bird
- Thomas Allan Bottrell
- Victor Leo Gordon Boyle
- William Carroll
- Herbert (Bert) Cumming
- Albert Edward Coates Delamotte Post WW1 men
- Frederick Sidney Gladstone
- John Huntley
- Henry McCavana
- Frank Moore
- Edward Patrick Thomas O'Brien
- John Donaldson Patterson
- William Plant
- John Whittaker
Fremantle to Plymouth 7 August - 25 September 1916
- Rueben Arnold
- Edward Bailey
- Richard Beattie
- Albert Victor Berry
- Macalister Adair Blain
- Sidney Herrick Carter
- William Francis Cohn
- Ernest John Coles
- William Edwin Cousens MM
- Harry Simpson Francis
- John Goffin
- Thomas Hesketh
- Donald Gordon Melville Huggins
- Gordon Weston Johanson
- Thomas William Moore
- Egbert Robert Trethowan Reeves
- James Strachan
- Theodore (Cecil) Charles Turner
- William Lamplough Ullyott
- Cyril Arthur Woodland
Fremantle to Devonport 29 January - 27 March 1917
- David Andrew Allison
- Frederick James Allison MM
- Henry Ogilvie Allom (Jnr)
- George Alexander Armstrong
- Gordon Walter Bone
- Henry William Buckland
- Frederick John Chester
- John Thomas Clements
- Stephen Gittins
- Frederick George Golding
- James Peter Henderson MM & Bar
- Stanley Thomas Marsh
- Samuel Mellington Moore
- Thomas Alfred Osborne
- Robert Melville Salter
- Leonard Alfred Sawtell
- Reginald George Sinclair
- Clarence Otto Sladden
- Harold Hopgood Surman
- Frederick White
England to Fremantle 21 December 1918 - 31 January 1919
Other journeys
Sydney (?) to Alexandria October to 5 December 1914 Sydney to Glasgow 2 August - 2 October 1917