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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


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

Mudros to Alexandria 4 - 6 January 1916