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History
Name

HMT Ivernia

Builder/Built 1899 Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson of Newcastle
Type Passenger Liner - immigrants
Displacement 13,799 tons
Speed 15 knots


Remarks

Owned by Cunard Steam Ship Company and used pre war on the Liverpool to New York or Boston routes. It was taken over as a troopship in September 1914, Ivernia was torpedoed and sunk on New Year's Day 1917 by U Boat-47 off Cape Matapan, Greece. 85 soldiers and 35 crew died.

List of soldiers carried

William Barge
George Edward Binns
Thomas Bird
Edward Briggs
Henry Thomas Cockram
George Sidney Cook
Victor Emanuel Durling
Albert John Egan MID