HMAT A23 Suffolk
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| History | |
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| Name | HMAT A23 Suffolk |
| Owner | Federal Steam Navigation Co |
| Builder | John Brown & Co, Clydebank |
| Launched | 23 May 1902 |
| Completed | 14 Jul 1902 |
| Out of service | 1927 |
| Fate | broken up 17 Jan 1927 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | passenger/ refrigerated cargo |
| Tonnage | 7,573 tons |
| Length | 460 ft (140.21m) |
| Beam | 58.2 ft (17.74m) |
| Depth | 31.2 ft (9.51m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 13 knots |
| Capacity | 224 passengers |
Contents
Remarks
This ship was owned by Birt, Trinder and Bethell of London. She operated as part of the fleet of the Federal Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. The Federal Line had obtained a contract from the New Zealand government to run a service between UK-South Africa-Australia and New Zealand, and the Suffolk was the first Federal Line ship to be used on this service when she left Liverpool in October 1904.
From October 1914 to June 1917 the Suffolk was leased to the Australian government and temporarily renamed as HMAT Suffolk. She was used to transport ANZAC troops to the war front in Europe and she completed five such journeys. In 1920 the Federal Steam Navigation Co. became the registered owners of the Suffolk. She was broken up at Bo’ness, Scotland in January 1927.
Soldiers carried
Alexandria to Mudros 2 - 5 March 1915 & Anzac Cove 25 April 1915
- John Alexander Adamson
- Walter Bell Blair
- John Harold Coffen
- Alfred Cecil Clarence Curtis
- Charles Maul Glover
- John Charles Hutchinson
- Frederick Edwin Murphy
- † Herbert Frank O'Neill
- John Alexander Spilsbury
- † John Wesley Gladstone Turner
Melbourne to Plymouth 30 September - 1 December 1916
Embarked in Fremantle on 10 October, sailed on 13 October 1916.
- William James Allen
- Arthur Leworthy Bettenay
- Wilfred George Bettenay
- Charles Blunt
- † James Willie Bush
- Martin Nicholas Cousens
- Thomas Hughie Culbertson
- † Angus Dearden
- † Thomas Denteith
- William Thomas Driver boarded in Melbourne 30 Sep 1916
- Arthur Charles Grafham boarded in Melbourne 30 Sep 1916
- Frederick Hobbs
- Edward Hobson
- † Tom Baxter Joyce
- Thomas Hale Kensit boarded in Melbourne 30 Sep 1916
- Daniel Adkins Lewis
- John Macarthur Livingston
- Claude Robert Marsh
- † Ernest James Mead
- Leonard George Morgan
- Alfred Parker
- Hartland Wheare Richards
- Felix Edmund John Sainsbury
- Archibald Shepherd
- William Arthur Shepherd
- Ernest (Roy) William Sladden
- Arthur Swindlehurst MM
- Ernest Charles Thomas
- Henry Albert Thorp
- Samuel James Verrier
Other Voyages
- 18 October 1914 from Sydney
- 28 July 1915 from Sydney
- 30 November 1915 from Sydney
- 1 April 1916 from Melbourne