HMAT A52 Surada
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Built for the British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London to cary 9 first class, 16 second class, amd 1421 passengers in steerage. Leased by the Commonwealth, she made four trips from Australia carrying troops, two in 1915, and two in 1916. Her management was then taken over by the British Admiralty on 4 Jan 1917.
On 2 Nov 1918 she was torpedoed by UC 74 in the swept channel off Port Said while on passage from Karachi to Marseille with rice. She was the last merchant ship lost during WW1.
Soldiers carried
Melbourne to Port Suez 6 February - 21 March 1915
Embarked in Fremantle on 17 February