RMS Mongolia
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | RMS Mongolia |
| Owner | Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Greenock |
| Builder | Caird & Company, Greenock |
| Yard number | 302 |
| Launched | 13 Aug 1903 |
| In service | 1904 |
| Out of service | 1917 |
| Fate | mined 24 Jun 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger / cargo |
| Tonnage | 9,505 tons |
| Length | 520.9 ft (158.73m) |
| Beam | 58.3 ft (17.75m) |
| Depth | 24.8 ft (7.52m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
Contents
Remarks
In civilian mode she had accommodation for 100 first class passengers, 80 second class, and 1,000 third class passengers. Previously used on the UK - North American routes, in 1915 she was sold to the British Admiralty, and operated by Indian & Peninsular Steam Navigation Co., Bombay.
On 24 Jun 1917 when 50 nautical miles south by west of Bombay, inward from London with passengers an mail, she struck a mine laid by SMS Wolf.
Soldiers carried
Fremantle to Port Suez 22 November - 14 December 1915
- Percival (Peter) Clement Bassett
- Frank Orlando Dawson
- † Frank William Dowell
- † Rudolf Eberhardt
- Charles Franklyn Fuhrmann
- John Francis Grabham MM
- Edward Henry Hanrahan
- William Joseph Hayden
- Herbert George Lewis
- Melbourne Hubert Randolph Matthews
- Lawrence Adrian Renou DCM
- † George Scrivener
- Amos Roy (Roy) Smith
- Edward Harris (Ted) Smith
- Albert Cornelius Jesse Verrier
- William Charles Woodland