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− | | | + | | image = [[File:HMHS_Llandovery_Castle.jpg|border|600px]] |
− | | | + | | caption = courtesy theheritageportal.co.za |
− | | | + | | image2 = [[File:U-Boat_UB-86.jpg]] |
− | | | + | | caption2 = Two German U-Boats grounded near Falmouth in 1921. The one nearer to the camera is UB 86 |
+ | | shipname = HMHS Llandovery Castle | ||
+ | | shipowner = Union-Castle Mail Steam Ship Co. Ltd., London | ||
+ | | shipbuilder = Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow | ||
+ | | shipyardnumber = 504 | ||
+ | | shiplaunched = 4 Sep 1913 | ||
+ | | shipcompleted = January 1914 | ||
+ | | shipinservice = 1914 | ||
+ | | shipoutofservice = 27 Jun 1918 | ||
+ | | shipinservice2 = | ||
+ | | shipoutofservice2 = | ||
+ | | shipreclassified = | ||
+ | | shipID = | ||
+ | | shipfate = Torpedoed and sunk | ||
+ | | shiptype = passenger / cargo | ||
+ | | shiptonnage = 10,639 tons | ||
+ | | shiplength = 500 ft 1 in (152.43 m) | ||
+ | | shipbeam = 63 ft 3 in (19.28 m) | ||
+ | | shipdepth = | ||
+ | | shippropulsion = twin screw | ||
+ | | shipspeed = 15 knots (27.78 km/h) | ||
+ | | shipcapacity = crew of 258 | ||
+ | }} | ||
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− | + | Designed to carry 429 passengers. Converted as a hospital ship in 1916, she could service 622 beds with 102 medical staff. She was chased by a U-Boat off cape Finisterre on 8 Jun 1916, but her speed saved the day. The sinking of the ''Llandovery Castle'' by U-Boat U-86 116 miles west of Fastnet Light off southern Ireland on 27 June 1918 is considered one of the worst atrocities of the war. She was employed as a hospital ship enroute from Halifax to Liverpool. Lights illuminating her Red Cross were on when she was torpedoed without warning. | |
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− | + | Firing at a hospital ship was against international law and the standing orders of the Imperial German Navy. The captain of U-86, Helmut Brümmer-Patzig, sought to destroy the evidence of torpedoing the ship. When the crew took to the lifeboats, U-86 surfaced, ran down all but one of the lifeboats and machine-gunned many of the survivors. Only 24 people survived out of the 258 people on board. UB-86 was a UB III-class submarine that was commissioned on 10 November 1917, and which made five patrols during the First World War. It was surrendered to Great Britain on 24 November 1918. | |
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− | Only 24 people survived out of the 258 people on board. | ||
==Soldiers carried== | ==Soldiers carried== | ||
− | ==Alexandria to Marseilles Acting as a troop ship 20 - 25 March 1916== | + | ===Alexandria to Marseilles Acting as a troop ship 20 - 25 March 1916=== |
+ | *[[Ivor Trehane Birtwistle]] | ||
*[[Aubrey Walter (Swazz) Mead]] | *[[Aubrey Walter (Swazz) Mead]] | ||
− | *[[ | + | *[[Charles Robert Merchant]] |
[[Category:Ships]] | [[Category:Ships]] |
Latest revision as of 17:29, 15 January 2023
Remarks
Designed to carry 429 passengers. Converted as a hospital ship in 1916, she could service 622 beds with 102 medical staff. She was chased by a U-Boat off cape Finisterre on 8 Jun 1916, but her speed saved the day. The sinking of the Llandovery Castle by U-Boat U-86 116 miles west of Fastnet Light off southern Ireland on 27 June 1918 is considered one of the worst atrocities of the war. She was employed as a hospital ship enroute from Halifax to Liverpool. Lights illuminating her Red Cross were on when she was torpedoed without warning.
Firing at a hospital ship was against international law and the standing orders of the Imperial German Navy. The captain of U-86, Helmut Brümmer-Patzig, sought to destroy the evidence of torpedoing the ship. When the crew took to the lifeboats, U-86 surfaced, ran down all but one of the lifeboats and machine-gunned many of the survivors. Only 24 people survived out of the 258 people on board. UB-86 was a UB III-class submarine that was commissioned on 10 November 1917, and which made five patrols during the First World War. It was surrendered to Great Britain on 24 November 1918.