HMT Transylvania

History
Name	HMT Transylvania
Builder/Built	1914 Scotts, Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co, Ltd
Type	Passenger liner (twin screw)
Displacement	14,348 tons
Speed	17.5 knots

Remarks

Built for Cunard subsidiary, the Anchor Line. Could carry 1,379 passengers in her original configuration, and 3,060 troops when fitted out as a troopship.

Used to move troops around the Mediterranean, on 4 May 1917 while sailing from Marseille to Alexandria she was torpedoed south of Italy by U-63, despite an escort from two Japanese destroyers. While one of the escorts was taking on board troops from the Transylvania, another torpedo was fired and although the destroyer was able to avoid it, the Transylvania was dead in the water and it sank immediately.

Ten crew members, 29 army officers, and 375 soldiers lost their lives.

Alexandria to Marseilles 29 March -4 April 1916

• William Carroll
• John Donaldson Patterson
• John James Thorpe Post WW1 men

Alexandria to Marseilles 18 - 23 June 1916

• Gordon Bishop
• Albert George Bullock
• William Heath
• William Archer Waller