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Revision as of 02:35, 1 November 2021

HMT Lake Michigan.jpg
Immigrant Ships of our Ancestors - Ron Miller
History
Name HMT Lake Michigan
Builder/Built 1901 Swan & Hunter Ltd, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Type passenger ship (twin screw)
Displacement 8,200 tons
Speed 13 knots
HMT Lake Michigan
HMT Lake Michigan.jpg
mmigrant Ships of our Ancestors - Ron Miller
File:.jpg
History
Name HMT Lake Michigan
Owner Beaver Line (Elder Dempster & Co), Liverpool
Builder Swan & Hunter Ltd, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Yard number 264
Launched 28 Sep 1901
Completed February 1902
In service 1902
Out of service 1908
Fate Torpedoed and sunk
General characteristics
Type passenger / cargo
Tonnage 8,200 tons
Length 469.5 ft (143.19m)
Beam 56.2 ft (17.13m)
Depth 31.9 ft (9.68m)
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 13 knots (25.08 km/h)



Remarks

At Gallipoli, the "Lake Michigan" landed the 4th Battalion, and the A Echelon of the 1st Infantry Brigade on 25 Apr 1915.[1]

On the 16th April 1918 she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-100 when on route from Liverpool for Saint John in New Brunswick.

Soldiers carried

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