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HMAT A18 Wiltshire

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History
Name HMAT A18 Wiltshire
Builder/Built 1912 John Brown Clydebank
Type Passenger / refrigerated cargo (twin screw)
Displacement 10,390 tons
Speed 14 knots


Remarks

Built for the Federal Stream navigation Co, Ltd of London for the UK p Australia, New Zealand route.

Leased by the Commonwealth until 2 Oct 1917, she completed nine voyages from Australia, including being in the first convoy from Albany.

Wrecked 31 May 1922 in Rosalie Bay, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand on passage form UK to Dunedin. No lives lost.

List of soldiers carried

Melbourne to Port Suez 18 Nov 1915 - 15 Dec 1915

William Harold Raynor

Melbourne to Port Suez 7 Mar 1916 - ??

Edward Dudley Mann

Return to Fremantle 12 Nov 1916 - 25 Dec 1916

John Paterson Henderson

Return to Fremantle 30 Aug 1918 - 24 Sep 1918

Frederick Charles Close
Edward Harris Smith