SS Dongola
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Name | SS Dongala |
Builder/Built | 1905 Barclay, Curle & Co |
Type | Ocean Liner |
Displacement | 8,038 tons |
Speed | 15.5 knots |
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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
- William Hart post WW1 man 4 - 19 May 1915