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HMAT Port Lincoln
HMAT is "His/Her Majesty's Australian Transport" and may refer to the following Australian troopship A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Troopships were often drafted from commercial shipping fleets, and were unable to land troops directly on shore, typic ...s: * HMAT ''Afric'' * HMAT ''Bulla'' * HMAT ''Medic'' * HMAT ''Orontes'' * HMAT ''Persic'' * HMAT ''Runic'' * HMAT ''Shropshire'' * HMAT ''Suevic'' * HMAT ''Wandilla'' * HMAT ''Warilda'' {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troopship
A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime. Troopships were often drafted from commercial shipping fleets, and were unable to land troops directly on shore, typically loading and unloading at a seaport or onto smaller vessels, either Ship's tender, tenders or barges. Attack transports, a variant of ocean-going troopship adapted to transporting invasion forces ashore, carry their own fleet of landing craft. Landing ships beach themselves and bring their troops directly ashore. History Ships to transport troops were used in antiquity. Ancient Rome used the navis lusoria, a small vessel powered by rowers and sail, to move soldiers on the Rhine and Danube. The modern troopship has as long a history as passenger ships do, as most maritime nations enlisted their support in military operations (either by leasing the vessels or by impressing them into service) when their normal naval forces were deemed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAT Afric
SS ''Afric'' was a steamship built for White Star Line by Harland and Wolff shipyards. She was of the , had a reported gross register tonnage of 11,948, and had a port of registry of Liverpool, England. ''Afric'' was launched on November 16, 1898, and was involved in shipping between Liverpool and Australia. ''Afric'' was the first of five Jubilee-class ships built by White Star Line for their new service to Australia, the others were , , and . ''Afric'' was a single-funnel liner with a capacity for 320 third-class passengers on three decks, she also had substantial cargo capacity with seven cargo holds, most of them refrigerated for the transport of Australian meat. Service history ''Afric'' made her maiden voyage on 8 February 1899, between Liverpool and New York; this was considered a test run, and when she returned she underwent further work to prepare her for her intended career on the Australia service. She entered service between Liverpool and Sydney via Cape Town on 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAT Bulla
HMAT ''Bulla'' was built as ''Hessen'' for the German Line Norddeutscher Lloyd in 1905. It was seized by Australian forces on September 3, 1914, when it sailed into Melbourne, being unaware of the outbreak of World War I. It was a troop transport in the First World War, and then transferred to the Commonwealth Government Line of Steamers in 1918. It was sold in 1926 to W. Schuchmann, who renamed it ''Weissesee'' ''Weissesee'' was bombed and sunk by aircraft at Hamburg, Germany, on 25 July 1943. The wreck was raised in 1949 and scrapped Scrap consists of recyclable Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. This concept often includes the recovery of energy from waste materials. The recyclability of a material depends on i .... References 1905 ships Captured ships Cargo ships of Australia Cargo ships of Germany Maritime incidents in July 1943 Merchant ships sunk by aircraft Ships built in Bremen (state) Ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAT Medic
SS ''Medic'' was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line which entered service in 1899. ''Medic'' was one of five s (the others being the , , and ) built specifically to service the Liverpool–Cape Town–Sydney route. The ship's name pertained to the ancient Persian region of Media and was pronounced ''Mee-dic''. ''Medic'' was the second Jubilee-class ship to be built for the Australia service. Like her sisters she was a single funnel liner, measuring just under , which had capacity for 320 passengers in third class on three decks, she also had substantial cargo capacity with seven cargo holds, most of them refrigerated for the transport of Australian meat. After a long career with White Star, ''Medic'' was sold in 1928 and was converted into a whaling factory ship and renamed ''Hektoria'', she remained in service in this role until being torpedoed and sunk during World War II in the Atlantic Ocean whilst sailing in a convoy in 1942 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAT Orontes
SS ''Orontes'' was an Orient Steam Navigation Company ocean liner. Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England built her in 1929. She was the second Orient Line ships to be named after the Orontes River. The first was , which had been scrapped in 1925. Her sister ships were ''Orama'', ''Orford'', , and . ''Orontes'' was the last of the ''Orama'' class to be built. Great effort was taken to make her public rooms the best of the class. Service ''Orontes'' maiden voyage was a Mediterranean cruise. From 1929 to 1940, she worked Orient Line's route between England and Australia. She carried the England cricket team on the way to the Bodyline tour in 1932. ''Orontes'' was a troopship from 1940 until 1947. In 1947 she repatriated German prisoners of war from Melbourne to Cuxhaven, Germany. In 1947 she was refitted, and in 1948 she returned to Orient Line's route between England and Australia. In 1953 John I. Thornycroft & Company refitted her as a one-class ship. In August 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAT Persic
SS ''Persic'' was an ocean liner of the White Star Line, built by Harland and Wolff in 1899. She was one of the five ships (the others being the , , and ) built specifically to service the Liverpool–Cape Town–Sydney route. The voyage took six weeks. ''Persic'' was the third Jubilee-class ship to be built for the Australia service, and was launched at Belfast on 7 September 1899, entering service on 7 December that year. ''Persic'', like her sisters was a single-funnel liner, which had capacity for 320 third class passengers, and also had substantial cargo capacity with seven cargo holds, most of them refrigerated for the transport of Australian meat. Early career ''Persic'' set out on her maiden voyage on 7 December 1899, as the Boer War was underway by this time, she carried 500 troops for South Africa. The maiden voyage turned out to be a fiasco as the ship developed a major fault: cracks developed on her rudder stock casting, which resulted in it breaking by the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAT Runic
SS ''Runic'' was a steamship built at Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line which entered service in 1901. ''Runic'' was the fourth of five s built for White Star's Australia service along with her sister ship , where she ran on the Liverpool–Cape Town–Sydney route. She served this route until she was requisitioned for use as a war transport between 1915 and 1919, before returning to the Australia service. She was the first White Star ship to be launched and enter service in the 20th century, and the second White Star ship to be named ''Runic'', an earlier ship of that name had served the company between 1889 and 1895. In 1930 ''Runic'' was sold and converted into a whaling factory ship and renamed ''New Sevilla'', she remained in service in this role until September 1940 when she was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast with the loss of two lives. Design and construction When White Star inaugurated service from Liverpool, England to Sydney, Australia in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAT Shropshire
HMAT ''Shropshire'' (''His Majesty's Australian Transport''), originally SS ''Shropshire'', was a 11,911-ton vessel, built by John Brown and Company in Clydebank, Glasgow, for the Federal Steam Navigation Company. She was employed on passenger and meat trade between New Zealand and Great Britain, but due to the First World War, she was converted into a troopship. She was leased by the Australian Commonwealth Government until 5 August 1917, when the British Admiralty took over control of the ship. Time as a troopship HMAT ''Shropshire'' undertook the following journeys as a troopship in World War I: * 20 October 1914 from Melbourne * 17/20 March 1915 from Sydney/Melbourne to Alexandria * 20 August 1915 from Sydney * 31 March 1916 from Fremantle to Port Suez * 25 September 1916 from Melbourne * 11 May 1917 from Melbourne Later use and fate In 1923, the ship was renamed ''Rotorua'' for the New Zealand Shipping Company. On 11 December 1940, it became a casualty of World War Two, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAT Suevic
SS ''Suevic'' was a steamship built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line. ''Suevic'' was the fifth and last of the s, built specifically to service the Liverpool-Cape Town-Sydney route, along with her sister ship . In 1907 she was wrecked off the south coast of England, but in the largest rescue of its kind, all passengers and crew were saved. The ship herself was deliberately broken in two, and a new bow was attached to the salvaged stern portion. Later serving as a Norwegian whaling factory ship carrying the name ''Skytteren'', she was scuttled off the Swedish coast in 1942 to prevent her capture by ships of Nazi Germany. Design and construction When White Star inaugurated service from Liverpool to Sydney in the late 1890s, they commissioned five steamships to be built for that route: the first three all entered service in 1899: , and . All three were single-funnel ocean liners which measured just under and were configured to carry 320 third class p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMAT Wandilla
SS ''Wandilla'' was a steamship built in 1912 for the Adelaide Steamship Company. The ship operated on the Fremantle to Sydney run until 1915, when she was acquired for military service and redesignated HMAT ''Wandilla''. Initially used as a troop transport, the vessel was converted to a hospital ship in 1916. ''Wandilla'' was returned to her owners at the end of the war, then was sold to the Bermuda & West Indies SS Company and renamed ''Fort St. George'' in 1921. She was sold in 1935 to Lloyd Triestino and renamed ''Cesarea'' before being renamed ''Arno'' in 1938. At the start of World War II, the ship was acquired by the Regia Marina for use as a hospital ship. She was sunk by British aircraft on 10 September 1942. Design and construction The ship was built in 1912, by William Beardmore and Company, Glasgow, together with her sister ships SS ''Warilda'' and SS ''Willochra''. Operational history She was used on the Fremantle to Sydney passenger-cargo service until May 1915. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
