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HMAT A38 Ulysses

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Name

HMAT A38 Ulysses

Builder/Built 1913 Workman Clark, Belfast
Type Passenger cargo ship (twin screw)
Displacement 14,449 tons
Speed 13.5 knots


Remarks

Owned by China Mutual SN Co, of London, leased by the Commonwealth until 15 Aug 1917. Made six or more trips from Australia. When not carrying troops along with the other transports she carried general goods to the UK.

On 11 Apr 1942 it was enroute Sydney to Liverpool with cargo when she was sunk by a torpedo from U-160 off the coat of Florida.

List of soldiers carried

George Henry Aspinall
William Edward Butcher MM RMG MID
Victor Norman Chandler MM
Henry Thomas Cockram
Aubrey Cecil Dawson
Alexander Donald
Thomas William Dowell
Victor Emanuel Durling
Albert John Egan MID
Richard Evans MM
Eugene Anthony Gillespie
Frederick Hobbs
Walter David Francis Kerridge