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SS Devanha

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History
Name SS Devanha
Builder/Built 1905 Caird & Company, Greenock
Type passenger / cargo ship
Displacement 8.092 tons
Speed 15 knots


Remarks

Built for the UK to India / China route and owned by Peninsular & Orient Steam Navigation Co.

Requisitioned on 16 Sep 1914 as used in the Mediterranean as a troop ship before becoming a hospital ship in April 1915.

Reconverted in 1919 to a troopship again, she was sold for scrap in March 1928.

Soldiers carried

Alexandria to Mudros 2 - 4 March 1915

Gallipoli to Malta 5 August 1915 - ?

England to Fremantle 8 May - 15 June 1919