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| image          = [[File:HMAT_A50_Itonus.jpg|border|600px]]
| caption        = http://www.findboatpics.com.au
| image2         = [[File:HMAT_A50_Itonus_2.jpg]]
| caption2       = Museums Victoria
| shipname = HMAT A50 Itonus
| shipowner = British India Steam Ship Co Ltd
| shipbuilder = Vickers & Maxim Ltd, Barrow
| shipyardnumber =
| shiplaunched =
| shipcompleted = 1898
| shipinservice = 1898
| shipoutofservice = 20 Dec 1916
| shipinservice2 =	
| shipoutofservice2 =
| shipreclassified =	
| shipID =
| shipfate = Torpedoed and sunk
| shiptype = converted cable ship	
| shiptonnage = 6,538 tons
| shiplength = 449 ft (136.86m)
| shipbeam = 45.2 ft (13.78m)
| shipdepth = 24.7 ft (7.53m)
| shippropulsion =	
| shipspeed =	12 knots (22.2 kph)
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==Remarks==
Originally the ''SS Anglia'' built for Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co Ltd, London. Sold 1907 to Archibald Currie & Co (Currie Line, Melbourne) who converted her into a cargo ship.  Name changed to ''Itonus'' before Currie was taken over by the British India Steam Ship Co Ltd in 1913.



Requisitioned by the Commonwealth Government. After her first journey to Egypt, she was retained there and used to transport New Zealand troops to Gallipoli landing these troops in the late afternoon of 25 Apr 1915. Used as a Hospital Ship during the duration of the Gallipoli campaign before returning to troop carrying in 1916 (total of three trips as a trooper).



Torpedoed and sunk near Malta in the Mediterranean by Austrian submarine U-38 on 20 Dec 1916 as she was making her way from Marseilles to Sydney with a load of tiles.  Five engine room crew members perished, and the Captain was taken prisoner. All other crew escaped in lifeboats.

==Soldiers carried==

===Adelaide to Port Suez 15 February - 24 March 1915===
Embarked in Fremantle on 22 February
* [[Clement Wilder Benporath]]
* [[John Blake]]
* [[Henry Thomas (Harry) Brear]]
* [[Arthur Charles Cam]]
* † [[Frederick Lawrence Close]]
* † [[John James Emery]]
* † [[Charles Maul Glover]]
* † [[Fritz Robert Jaentsch]]
* [[Bernard O'Reilly]] Post WW1
* [[Francis William Singleton]]
* [[Edward William Tink]]
* † [[Leslie Huon Truman]]
* † [[James Winning]]

===Alexandria to Mudross 15 - 18 Jul 1915===
* [[Bernard O'Reilly]] Post WW1

===Port Suez to Fremantle 10 June 1916 - ?? July 1916===
* [[Reuben Douglas Naughton]]

===Brisbane to Fremantle 8 August - 23 August 1916===
* [[Frederick William Thornton]] 

===Other Journeys===
30 December 1915 Brisbane to Egypt
8 August 1916 Brisbane to England
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