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| image          = [[File:HMAT_A68_Anchisses.jpg|border|600px]]
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| image2         = [[File:HMAT_A68_Anchisses_1.jpg]]
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| shipname = HMAT A68 Anchises
| shipowner = Ocean Steam Ship Co. Ltd (A. Holt & Co)
| shipbuilder = Workman Clark & Co. Ltd. Belfast
| shipyardnumber = 296
| shiplaunched =  1911
| shipcompleted = 10 Mar 1911
| shipinservice =
| shipoutofservice = 28 Feb 1941
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| shipoutofservice2 =
| shipreclassified =	
| shipID = GPZB
| shipfate = Bombed and Sunk
| shiptype = passenger / cargo ship
| shiptonnage = 10,046 tons
| shiplength = 493 ft (150.26m)
| shipbeam = 60.4 ft (18.41m)
| shipdepth = 37.1 ft (11.31m)
| shippropulsion = twin screw	
| shipspeed = 14 knots	(25.93 kph)
| shipcapacity = 300 x 1st class

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==Remarks==
Owned by the Ocean SS Co Ltd, Liverpool (Blue Funnel Line). While managed by the Transport Branch of the Royal Australian Navy she made five journeys from Australia as a troop ship. Commonwealth control ceased on 12 Oct 1917 when her management transferred to the British Admiralty.


On 27 Feb 1941, when about 180 miles W.N.W. of North Aran Island, Co., Donegal, the ''SS Anchises'' was bombed by German aircraft. In this attack, 3 passengers died. She lost power and 134 passengers and crew abandoned the ship in six life boats whilst 33 crew members remained on board to try to sail her to Liverpool. Whilst waiting for a salvage tug she was attacked again on 28 Feb 1941 and sank with the loss of 12 lives. The remaining survivors were rescued by HMS Kingcup and HMCS Assiniboine. She was only 70 miles short of the Mersey Estuary. In total, 12 members of the crew and three passengers were killed. One hundred and fifty-six were rescued. 

==Soldiers carried==

===Fremantle to Port Suez 2 September 1915 - ? September 1915===
Sailed 26 August 1915 from Melbourne, Victoria 
* † [[Frederick James Bishop]]
* [[Reginald Thomas (Reg) Cockshott]]
* [[Victor Thomas Emanuel Compassi]]
* [[George Chistopher Dalziell DCM]]
* [[Angus Lindt]]
* † [[Ernest Edward Lockhart]]
* † [[Frederick William Wallace Moore]]
* [[Joseph Pulford]]
* [[Edward William Tink]]

===Sydney to Liverpool 8 August - 2 October 1917===
*[[Arthur Frederick William Eivers]]
*[[John Henry Ward]]

===England to Fremantle 1 November - 25 December 1917===
*[[Patrick Francis Brennan]]
*[[William Arthur Shepherd]]

===Devonport to Albany 28 February - 7 April 1919===
* [[Edgar Copley Adams MID]]
* [[Percival (Peter) Clement Bassett]]
* [[Ronald Adolphous Julian Batt]]
* [[Edward Briggs]]
* [[Harry Redcliffe Broadhurst]]
* [[Victor Norman Chandler MM]]
* [[George Chistopher Dalziell DCM]]
* [[Albert John Egan MID]]
* [[Arthur Frederick William Eivers]]
* [[John Edwin Ffoulkes DCM]]
* [[George Weston Firns]]
* [[James Owen Horrocks]]
* [[James Kershaw]]
* [[Arthur Thomas Lester]]
* [[Angus Lindt]]
* [[Alfred Arthur Martin]]
* [[Hector Lionel Saw]]
* [[Frederick Selkirk]]
* [[John Harold Rupert Smith]]
* [[William George Tait]]

===Other Voyages===
* 14 March 1916 from Melbourne, Victoria
* 24 August 1916 from Sydney, New South Wales; 28 August 1916 from Adelaide.
* 24 January 1917 from Sydney, New South Wales 
* 28 August 1916 from Adelaide, South Australia
* 22 August - 5 October 1919 (Plymouth to Adelaide)
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