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SS Dongola
SS Dongala.jpg
History
Name SS Dongala
Owner Peninsular & Orient Steam Navigation Company
Builder Barclay, Curie & Co.
Completed 1905
Out of service 1926
Fate Sold for scrap 1926
General characteristics
Type Ocean liner
Tonnage 4723 tons
Length 470 feet (143.3 metres
Beam 56.25 feet (17.15 metres)
Depth 27.75 feet (8.49 metres)
Propulsion 8,000 HP
Speed 15.5 knots
Capacity 150 1st class, and 100 2nd class passengers



Remarks

Owned by Peninsular & Orient Steam Navigation Company. During the war she was a British Hospital ship, staffed by nurses including some Australian and New Zealand nurses. Dongola served in the Dardanelles campaign and visited Anzac, Suvla and Cape Helles in 1915, taking patients to Alexandria in Egypt and to Malta.


Used later as a Troopship as per the photo, returning troops from the Middle East to Australia.


Soldiers carried

Off Gallipoli acting as a Hospital Ship

England to Fremantle 24 July - 17 August 1919