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HMAT A30 Borda
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History
Name HMAT A30 Borda
Owner Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co, London.
Builder Caird & Company, Greenock
Yard number 326
Launched 17 December 1913
Completed March 1914
In service April 1914
Out of service August 1930
Fate scrapped in japan
General characteristics
Type Passenger / cargo (refrigerated)
Tonnage 11,136 tons
Length 500 ft (152.35m)
Beam 62.25 ft (18.95m)
Depth 31.75 ft (11.52m)
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 14 knots (25.93 Kph)
Capacity 302 one class


Remarks

Built for the Pacific & Orient Steam Navigation Company of London, and designed for the Australian emigrant service via Cape Town.


Leased by the Commonwealth until 10 Sep 1917 during which time it made 6 voyages from Australia with troops. On 19 Sep 1917 management was transferred to the British Admiralty. She was a part of the second convoy from Albany in December 1914.


In 1920 the Borda returned to civilian ownership and returned to Australian service. Her last trip from Australia was in 1929 after which she was laid up before being sold in August 1930 for scrapping. She sailed to Kobe in Japan where she was demolished.

Soldiers carried

Fremantle to Port Suez 26 April - ? May 1915

Alexandria to Mudros 18 - 21 October 1915

Port Suez to Fremantle 15 November - 13 December 1915

Fremantle to Port Suez 17 January - 9 February 1916

England to Fremantle 17 August - 16 September 1916

Adelaide to Plymouth 23 June - 25 August 1917

Embarked in Fremantle on 29 June

Plymouth to Fremantle 26 September - 12 November 1917

England to Fremantle 5 April 1918 - 22 May 1918

England to Australia 2 May 1919 - 30 May 1919

England to Fremantle 9 December 1919 - 19 January 1920

===Other Voyages===
  • 15 December 1914 from Brisbane
  • 23 June 1915 from Adelaide
  • 5 June 1916 from Sydney
  • 17 October 1916 from Sydney
  • 17 July 1918 from Sydney