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SS Dongola

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History
Name SS Dongala
Builder/Built 1905 Barclay, Curle & Co
Type Ocean Liner
Displacement 8,038 tons
Speed 15.5 knots


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 on a single voyage (?) returning troops from the Middle East to Australia. Scrapped in 1926

Soldiers carried

Off Gallipoli acting as a Hospital Ship

England to Fremantle 24 July - 17 August 1919