RMS Mongolia

RMS Mongolia

File:RMS Mongolia.jpg Postcard of the S.S. Mongolia (2) seen in Port Said, Egypt
File:RMS Mongolia 1.jpg S.S. Mongolia is seen here in Melbourne Australia
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
Speed	19 knots (35.19 km/h)

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

Fremantle to Port Suez 17 July - 18 August 1916

• Edward Henson Broadhurst
• Walter Cattach

Notes

There is considerable confusion on a number of internet sites between the Mongolia built in 1903 by Caird & Co which struck a mine and sank in 1917 with the Mongolian built by William Denny & Bros that was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1918. On the casis of probability I have provided details of the 1903 version which was sailing from Australian ports during 1916.