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Revision as of 23:09, 11 March 2018
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| Name | HMHS St Patrick |
| Builder/Built | 1906 John Brown, Clydebank |
| Type | Channel Ferry |
| Displacement | 2,531 tons |
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She was owned by Fishguard & Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company and was used as a ferry between Fishguard and Rosslare. From 1914 to 1919 she was requisitioned as a hospital ship, HMHS St Patrick. Along with her sister ships the St. David and St. Andrew she was one of the first five ships to be requisitioned during the First World War and converted to a hospital ship with a capacity of 146 berths and 28 cots, remaining in service until January 1919.
She was destroyed when she caught fire at Fishguard in 1929; scrapped by T W Ward Ltd.