HMAT A52 Surada

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History
Name	HMAT A52 Surada
Builder/Built	1902 A & J Inglis Pointhouse, Glasgow
Type	Passenger / cargo steamship (single screw)
Displacement	5,236 tons
Speed	11.5 knots

Remarks

Built for the British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London to cary 9 first class, 16 second class, amd 1421 passengers in steerage. Leased by the Commonwealth, she made three trips from Australia carrying troops, one in 1915, and two in 1916. Her management was then taken over by the British Admiralty on 4 Jan 1917,

On 2 Nov 1918 she was torpedoed by UC74 off Port Said. She was the last merchant ship lost during WW1.

Soldiers carried

Fremantle to Port Suez 17 February - 21 March 1915

• Claude Francis Cooper
• Spencer Gwynne DCM MID
• Percy Francis Keenan
• John Regan
• Samuel Edward Tate

Fremantle to Port Suez 16 May - 16 June 1916

• Herbert Stanley (Bert) Jones
• Victor Henry Jones
• William Renfrey Thomas

Fremantle to Plymouth 22 September - 20 November 1916

• Joseph Clough
• Harold Empsall
• Joseph Reginald Jones
• Osborne King
• Bertram Ernest Powell
• Arthur John Verrall