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Revision as of 00:52, 22 October 2021
Remarks
Laid down on the stocks as Medina but launched and completed as Malwa. Engaged on the Britain-Australia-India service, she was in Fremantle when war was declared. She was contracted on several occasions to carry Australian troops.On 24 Sep 1920 she resumed the Australian service, continuing until 16 Dec 1932 whn she was sold to be broken up in Japan.
Soldiers carried
Fremantle to Egypt 31 July - 24 Aug 1916
- Herbert Sherwood Marsh one of only 33 men who boarded in Fremantle, 494 total