HMT Ivernia
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| Name | HMT Ivernia |
| Builder | Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson of Newcastle |
| Launched | 1899 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger Liner - immigrants |
| Tonnage | 13,799 tons |
| Length | 600 ft (180 m) |
| Beam | 64 ft (20 m) |
| Speed | 15 knots (27.78 km/h) |
| Capacity | 1,964 passengers - (164 x 1st Class, 200 Sx 2nd, 1,600 x 3rd) |
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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.
Soldiers carried
Alexandria to Mudros 4 - 7 September 1915
On 10 Sep 1915 all boarded HMT Sarnia for the journey to Anzac Cove
- † William Barge
- † Charles Barnett
- William Bowman
- Arthur Percy Thomas Boyle
- Edward Briggs
- † John McLeod Brown
- † Oswald Chorlton
- William Edward Clarence Green
- Walter Hayward
- Frederick Hobbs
- † John Hobbs
- † Stephen Henry Horrocks
- Henry Richard Keefe
- † Basil Kelley
- William Alfred Leaver
- † Harry Pickard
- Henry George Price
- Reginald Grove Sexty MID
- † Roland Parker Shelley
- Arnold Thorp
England to Alexandria ?? - 16 February 1916
Alexandria to Marseilles France 22 - 28 Mar 1916
Alexandria to Marseilles 5 - 12 June 1916
- Edward Patrick Barker
- George Edward Binns
- Clyde Bird
- Thomas Bird
- † John McLeod Brown
- William Edward Butcher MM RMG MID
- Victor Norman Chandler MM
- † Bernard William Chatfield
- Henry Thomas Cockram
- George Sidney Cook
- Francis Crowe
- † Walter Edward Dalziell
- Charles Henry Davis
- Gordon Devereux MM post WW1 men
- Alexander Donald
- Victor Emanuel Durling
- Albert John Egan MID
- † Charles Maul Glover
- † John Francis Grabham MM
- † John Huntley
- Walter David Francis Kerridge
- Thomas William Kerry
- Alexander Russell Main
- † Leonard Roy Matthews
- Charles Frederick McKay
- † Keith George Harman Podger
- † Charles Joseph Gerald Raynor
- † Lawrence Adrian Renou DCM
- Francis Henry Ryniker
- Henry Giles Schmidt
- † Ernest Selkirk MID
- Frederick Selkirk
- † Frank Leslie Sexton