HMHS Llandovery Castle
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| History | |
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| Name | HMHS Llandovery Castle |
| Builder/Built | 1914 Barclay Curle & Co, Glasgow |
| Type | Passenger liner (twin screw) |
| Displacement | 10,639 tons |
| Speed | 15 knots |
Remarks
Owned by the Union-Castle Line and designed to carry 429 passengers. As a hospital ship she could service 622 beds with 102 medical staff.
The sinking of the Llandovery Castle by U-Boat U-86 is considered one of the worst atrocities of the war. She was employed as a hospital ship and had her cross lights on when she was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine.
Only 24 people survived out of the 258 people on board.
Soldiers carried
- Ivor Trehane Birtwistle Post WW1 men