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Revision as of 16:31, 30 April 2017

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History
Name HMAT A19 Afric
Builder/Built 1899 Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Type passenger / cargo ship (twin screw)
Displacement 11,948 tons
Speed 13 knots


Remarks

Built for Ismay Imrie & Co (White Star Line) for the UK to Australia service. Part of the first convoy from Albany to Alexandria. During April 1915 she was converted to carry 549 troops and 500 horses. made six complete voyages from Australia. Torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel on 12 Feb 1917. Twenty two lives lost.

Soldiers carried

Melbourne to Port Suez 31 December 1915 - 9 February 1919