HMHS St David

History
Name	HMHS St David
Builder/Built	1906 John Brown & Co, Clydebank
Displacement	2,531 tons

Remarks

Built for the Great Western Railway to carry rail passengers from Fishguard to Rosslare (Ireland).

Fitted out as a Hospital Ship during WW1, with a Medical staff of 4 Officers, 4 Nurses and 26 other ranks she could accommodate 14 Officer wounded, 23 in Copts, and 157 in Berths. One of the few that served the entire war period from 19 Aug 1914 - 16 Jan 1919.

Renamed the Rosslare in 1932 then scrapped the next year.

Soldiers carried

Boulogne to England 4 August 1916

• Ernest Wells

Boulogne to England 31 Aug 1916

• William Augustus Povah

Boulogne to England 2 December 1916

• Herbert Frank O'Neill

Boulogne to England 8 May 1917

• Sylvanus Benjamin Buckland

Rouen, France to England 16 May 1917

• Frederick Hobbs

France to England 12 June 1917

• Archibald Shepherd

France to England 23 June 1917

• Alfred Arthur Martin

Boulogne to England 3 July 1917

• James Lawrence McKenna

France to England 8 August 1917

• John Arthur Patterson MM

Rouen to England 16 August 1917

• Robert George McLean Post WW1 men

France to England 27 August 1917

• Matthew Harwood

France to England 30 August 1917

• Leonard George Morgan

France to England 28 April 1918

• William Francis Combs

France to England 23 October 1918

• Alfred Haddy Pearse