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Carried 8 Medical Officers, 10 Nurses and 45 other medical staff to look after up to 8 Officer casualties, 100 in cots, and 333 in berths. Served until 2 Mar 1920. | Carried 8 Medical Officers, 10 Nurses and 45 other medical staff to look after up to 8 Officer casualties, 100 in cots, and 333 in berths. Served until 2 Mar 1920. | ||
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+ | [[Grace Laurita Lauritz]] | ||
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+ | ==Tripoli to Alexandria ? November 1918== | ||
+ | [[Francis Leonard Martin]] | ||
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Revision as of 17:18, 26 April 2017
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Name | HMHS Assaye |
Builder/Built | 1899 Caird & Company, Greenock |
Type | Passenger Liner (twin Screw) |
Displacement | 7,396 tons |
Speed | 16 knots |
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Owned by the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Used as a Boer War transport soon after launching, also served during the Boxer Rising in China, before becoming a peacetime Indian troopship. Some commercial use in 1908 - 14 before being hired by the Admiralty first as a troops hip and then as a Hospital Ship.
Carried 8 Medical Officers, 10 Nurses and 45 other medical staff to look after up to 8 Officer casualties, 100 in cots, and 333 in berths. Served until 2 Mar 1920.