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History
Name HMHS Dieppe
Builder/Built 1905 Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Ltd, Govan
Displacement 1,210 tons
Speed 22 knots


Remarks

Dieppe was a steam passenger ferry that was built in 1905 for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

She was requisitioned during the First World War for use as a troopship and later as a hospital ship HMS Dieppe, returning to her owners postwar.

She passed to the Southern Railway on 1 January 1923. In 1933 she was sold to W E Guinness and converted to a private diesel yacht, Rosaura.

She was requisitioned in the Second World War for use as an armed boarding vessel, HMS Rosaura. She struck a mine and sank off Tobruk, Libya on 18 March 1941.

Soldiers carried

Calais to England 10 July 1916

France to England 26 July 1916

France to England 31 July 1916