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Latest revision as of 16:44, 5 April 2023
Remarks
Built for British India Steam Navigation Co, for use on the UK - India route via Cape Town. She was taken over in Aug 1914 and used as a troopship until January 1915 when she was fitted out as a 660 bed Hospital Ship. In 1918 her role changed to be a troopship again for US troops moving to Europe, and then repatriating troops to their home countries.
She was used by the British between the wars as a troopship, and continued in that role from 1925 right through WW2 until 1948 when she was scrapped.
Soldiers carried
World War I
Anzac Cove 15 July 1915
Gallipoli to Alexandria 7 - 10 November 1915
England to Fremantle 4 - 21 January 1919
England to Fremantle 5 March - 13 April 1919
World War II
During WWII the SS Nevasa operated as a troopship.
Fremantle to Kantara, Egypt 20 Apr - 17 May 1940
Code Name Y3. The 2/11th Battalion boarded her on 20 Apr 1940. Nevasa left the wharf at 12:10pm and anchored in Gage Roads, before sailing at 3:00pm on 22 Apr 1940. She arrived in Colombo on 3 May 1940. While she subsequently arrived in Kantarra on 17 May, she did not disembark troops until the 19 May 1940.
- Walter Leonard Axford
- Geoffrey Gordon Benson
- Harry Wallace Benson
- Edmond Hepple Brown MID 2/3rd Field Company
- Oliver Donald George Bruce
- Edward Charles (Ted) Fancote
- William Randall Foggon
- George Garratt
- Stanley Hubert Hancock
- Donald Campell William Henderson
- Andrew David Johnson
- William James Johnson
- Cornielius Harold (Con) Kerrison
- Kenneth Myers Kroenert
- Arthur Mitchell
- Maurice Gerard O'Brien
- † Douglas Windsor Parkin
- † Mervyn Roy Parkin
- Charles Amos George Victor Petersen POW Crete
- Alfred George Playle
- James Percy Ray
- † Robert Summerfield
- William George Ward