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HMAT A6 Clan MacCorquodale
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History
Name HMAT A6 Clan MacCorquodale
Builder Charles Connell & Company, Scotstoun
Yard number 354
Launched 4 Sep 1913
Completed Oct 1913
In service 16 Oct 1913
Fate torpedoed and sunk 17 Nov 1917
General characteristics
Type passenger / cargo ship single Screw
Tonnage 5,121 tons
Length 430.2 ft (131.13m)
Beam 53.4 ft (16.28m)
Depth 26.7 ft (8.14m)
Propulsion single screw
Speed 14 knots (25.93 kph)


Remarks

Built for Cayser, Irvin and Co. of Glasgow (Clan Line). Was a member of the first convoy from Albany to Alexandria, and made five other journeys from Australia with troops aboard.

War service

  • 03/09/1914 until 14/04/1917 Australian Expeditionary Force Transport No. A.6.
  • 11/03/1915 until 07/07/1915 On Imperial service
  • 13/01/1916 until 04/03/1916 On Imperial service.
  • 15/04/1917 until 22/06/1917 Expeditionary Force Transport No. F. 182, moving Canadian stores.
  • 23/06/1917 until 17/11/1917 Liner Requisition Scheme.


Whilst on a voyage from Chittagong to London, with general cargo, was sunk with a torpedo by the German submarine UB 51, in the Mediterranean on 17 Nov 1917, 275 km NNW of Alexandria.

Soldiers carried

Adelaide to Port Suez 5 February - 12 March 1917

Embarked in Fremantle 13 February

Other Voyages

  • 6 May 1916 from Melbourne