";s:4:"text";s:37348:"In 1932 she was renamed Rosslare and was sold for scrap the following year. "- Mined on 10th October, 1917, off Malta, at 11.50 a.m.; 362 patients on board, including 20 officers and 17 sisters; the ship was cleared in thirty-five minutes; there were no casualties; the ship Was towed into Malta. She was indeed stopped, inspected and allowed to proceed by a German uboat as previously reported. List of hospital ships sunk in World War I; References External links. LANFRANC (HOSPITAL SHIP), 6,287grt, 17 April 1917, 42 miles N ½ E from Havre, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 5 lives lost DONEGAL, 1,885grt, defensively-armed, 17 April 1917, 19 miles S from Dean LV, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 11 lives lost In August 1915 she was requisitioned by the Commonwealth and converted into a troop ship (HMAT Warilda A69) at first carrying Infantry and Light Horse reinforcements to Egypt in October 1915 and February 1916, and then a contingent from the Tunnelling Companies to England in June 1916. On board were 387 patients of which 326 were cot cases many of which were seriously wounded with fractures and amputations. Nine were torpedoed by German U-boats and four struck enemy mines. The ship was sunk by a second torpedo after being cleared. On board, the crew consisted of one hundred and sixty-four men, eighty officers and men of the Canadian Medical Corps, and fourteen nurses, a total of two hundred and fifty-eight persons. In September 1936, Rosaura was in collision with the Dutch coaster Henca at Amsterdam and though severely damaged was subsequently repaired. There are 1106 survivors, and about 50 are lost. 11 … This was supported by a ship's crew of 675. After the First World War she was renamed TSS Arvonia in 1919. As with the Brighton, the Dieppe was built for and operated by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and used on the Newhaven to Dieppe route. Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 The pathology of influenza in France, by Dr. S. W. Patterson, published in the Medical Journal of … She was requisitioned by the Admiralty as an armed boarding steamer in 1914 and became a hospital ship after August 1915. As Emily Brewer wrote – “The term is said to come from the Hindi for foreign, which was pronounced bilayati or vilayati. Later, the paddle steamer Princesse Clementine and turbine steamer Princesse Elisabeth were employed as fast military transports between Dover and ports in Flanders, whilst the paddle steamer Rapide and turbine steamer Stad Antwerpen saw service as hospital ships. Just twenty four people survived the attack on the lifeboats, including six members of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The blast destroyed most of the lifeboats, while the subsequent pitch of the vessel hindered attempts to launch the remaining boats. On 25th August 1933, in thick fog, Roussalka was wrecked on rocks in Killary Bay, Ireland. RMT ferries saw use in both world wars. united states naval ships sunk or damaged by enemy torpedo, bombs, or gunfire. HHMS Newfoundland was a hospital ship manned by orderlies and doctors from the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) and 6 British Army nurses from the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (QAIMNS) and the Territorial Army Nursing Service (TANS), when it was assigned as the hospital ship of the Eighth Army, after the Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943. The HS Awa Maru was … In August 1922 she was again requisitioned as a troopship, this time by the Irish Free State along with the SS Lady Wicklow, before being scrapped in 1925. It was brought back by British troops who had been posted in India. On 19th December 1914, she rescued the survivors of the naval trawler HMT Orianda, which had been sunk by a mine in the North Sea off Scarborough, Yorkshire. Great War Hospital Ships Military Hospital Ships and Ambulance Transports. This is awful – sick every time. MacPherson, K.C.M.G., C.B., LL.D. Why did Malta become one of WWI’s biggest hospitals? A hospital ship (HS) is designated for primary function as a medical treatment facility or hospital and covered by Article Four of the Hague Convention of 1907. 5th/22nd soldiers that were transported on the HMHS St. Andrew: 2345 Pte McDonagh; 2421 Pte Temple; 2438 Pte Tripp, Built by Cammell Laird & Company, Liverpool in 1906. The Great Western Railway’s ships operated in connection with the company’s trains to provide services to Ireland, the Channel Islands and France. Name Image Nationality Date Location of wreck Cause Lives lost Note HS Andros: Greece 23 April 1941: At Loutraki (West of the Corinth Canal) Sunk by Italian aircraft ? In 1914 she was requisitioned by the British Royal Navy for use first as a troopship then converted to a hospital ship. Dieppe was returned to her owners after the war and passed to the Southern Railway in 1923. Britannic hit a mine on 21 November 1916; 30 people were killed, but the rest of the crew and passengers were able to escape. Britannic hit a mine on November 21, 1916; 30 people were killed, but the rest of the crew and passengers were able to escape. James Cartwright was in the 3rd Battn Norfolk Regt. After the war the Gloucester Castle was returned to her former owners and later served on the round Africa route. 5th/22nd soldiers that were transported on the HMHS St. Patrick: 2389 Cpl Seddon; 2403 Pte Salter, Built by John Brown & Company, Scotland in 1908. To aid the wounded, a medical staff of 52 officers, 101 nurses, and 336 orderlies was embarked. One such hospital ship that was allocated to the Anzac landings was the ‘Gascon’. However on 20th March 1917 after landing 1,000 wounded at Avonmouth in the Bristol Channel, the Asturias was attacked by German submarine off the south Devon coast and struck by a torpedo which blew off her stern, killing 35 of her crew. The demise of RMT was a direct result of the opening in 1994 of the Channel Tunnel. After the war she caught fire while moored at Fishguard in April 1929 and was then sold for scrap the following year after her engines had been transferred to the St Andrew. In August 1906 the GWR’s Welsh terminal was moved to a new harbour at Fishguard and a similar change saw Rosslare become the principal railway harbour on the other side of Irish Sea although some services were still provided to Waterford. The shells from Michel destroyed the bridge and the ship sank with 93 killed, including the Master, Herbert H. Rose, six women passengers and two children. HMHS Llandovery Castle was struck by torpedo at night, and despite difficulty the crew and medical staff were able to get into a number of lifeboats before she sank, and they started to pick up survivors in the water. Amongst those that died were fifteen Australians and The Deputy Chief Controller of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corp, Mrs Violet Long. By the end of the war Malta had earned itself the nickname, the ‘Nurse of the Mediterranean’.². On 18th March 1941 Rosaura struck a mine off Tobruk and sank claiming the lives of 78 people. Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Kiesewetter — the commander of UC-56 — was arrested after the war on his voyage back to Germany and interned in the Tower of London. We hold dear to our hearts such as the unconditional love of God. She was commissioned as a hospital ship on 26th July 1916, and assigned to the Canadian Forces, equipped with 622 beds and a medical staff of 102. Before the First World War the SS Warilda was operated by the Adelaide Steamship Company sailing the East-West Australian coastal service. Included amongst the patients were 27 German officers and 140 German other ranks. Hospital ships should display large Red Crosses or Red Crescents. Departing Liverpool on December 23, Britannic coaled at Naples, Italy before reaching its new base at Mudros, Lemnos. Required fields are marked *. List of hospital ships sunk in World War II. Of the total Allied losses, a third were sunk in just three months in Spring 1917 just after the German’s reintroduced ‘unrestricted submarine warfare’ in February 1917. One of her escorts attempted a tow, but the line had to be cut and she sank in about two hours. Twelve British, and one Australian, hospital ships were sunk during the war, often in controversial circumstances such as the Llandovery Castle (see Troop Ships section). Later, vessels of the line evacuated diplomats, troops and important officials before the fall of Antwerp. As a hospital ship, Britannic possessed 2,034 berths and 1,035 cots for casualties. She was finally scrapped in Scotland in 1939. 5th/22nd soldiers that were transported on the HMHS Gruntully Castle: 2407 Pte Stevens; 2427 Sgt Topliff; 2454 Pte White; 2463 Pte Baker, Built in 1914 in Glasgow for the Union-Castle Line. On 27th February 1916 she took aboard over 100 survivors from the P&O passenger liner Maloja, which was sunk by a mine off Dover. It originated in India. She was later converted in May 1915 into a hospital ships with accommodation for 552 beds. The Grace Lutheran Church is located at 709 Main St, Vestal, NY. Last edited on 29 January 2021, at 01:12. Weighed anchor 3pm, left Malta 4pm. As they were always referred to this way, they began to associate it with home and corrupted the term into an anglicized form.”º, ¹ ‘Why did Malta become one of WWI’s biggest hospitals?‘ by BBC, ² ‘Military Hospitals, Malta, During the Great War 1914-18‘ at GreatWar, * ‘Cottonera Hospital and Malta as the ‘Nurse of the Mediterranean” from Malta Times (images may be subject to copyright), † The Manchester Guardian, April 27th, 1917, º Emily Brewer ‘Tommy, Doughboy, Fritz – Soldier Slang of WW1’, Your email address will not be published. As one of the first five military hospitals at the beginning of the war, from the period 24th August to 3rd September 1914 these vessels made 9 trips in total, from either Le Havre or Rouen, across to Southampton, carrying a total of 3,787 patients. 5th/22nd soldiers that were transported on the HS Warilda: 2346 Sgt McCormack; 2465 Cpl Bellis; 2493 Sgt Batton. The Union-Castle Line was a prominent British shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and cargo ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977. The latter included HMHS Britannic, sister ship of … We are a Missouri Synod Lutheran (LCMS) congregation. With the outbreak of war she was requisitioned and used as a hospital ship transporting wounded soldiers from the front across the English Channel. Slept bad. In February 1941, Rosaura was involved in Operation Abstention, the invasion of the Italian island of Kastelorizo off Greece. The Aberdonian left service in March 1945 and was sold for scrap in December 1949. With British and Empire soldiers all fighting on foreign soil, the role of the hospital ship was vital in providing both medical facilities away from battlefield and for conveying the sick and wounded back to England for treatment. On 1st March, 1917 when on route from Le Havre to Southampton, the Glenart Castle struck a mine with 520 sick and wounded on board, including 300 cot cases. By the evening of 25th April 1915, 557 wounded had been evacuated from Anzac Cove and taken on board the ‘Gascon’. Union-Castle named most of their ships with the suffix “Castle” in their names; the names of several inherited from the Union Line were changed to this scheme (for example, Galacian became Glenart Castle) but others (such as Gascon) retained their original name. She was requisitioned in 1916 and was used to transport the 22nd Battalion from Alexandria to Marseille in March 1916 as the AIF, and with the 2nd Division at the fore, moved to France for the fighting on the Western Front. Your email address will not be published. Sadly 123 people lost their lives, including all the engine room staff, all the occupants of “I” ward (the lowest ward containing 101 “walking” patients), and 19 people from capsized lifeboats. During the Gallipoli campaign, wounded men from the battlefield would be ferried out by flat bottom boats to hospital ships lying offshore. At the end of the war Brighton brought the American President Woodrow Wilson back to Dover after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, before being returned to her owners in 1920. One of the tugs, Richmere, that was sent to help her got into difficulty and sank after hitting the harbour wall, though all crew were rescued. Australia’s Hospital Ships of WW II. October 15, 1917: U. S. S. Cousin (destroyer), displacement 1,139 tons; torpedoed by German submarine U-105, off the coast of Ireland, 20 miles south of Mine Head in 51° N., 7° W.; salvaged; one killed and nine injured. On the evening of the 17th April 1917, HMHS Lanfranc was on route from Le Havre to Southampton when she was torpedoed without warning. Meaning Britain or ‘home’, Blighty was common slang used before and throughout the war. Owned and operated by the Union-Castle Line, the Gruntully Castle was originally used as a troop ships when she was requisitioned in January 1915. She had accommodation for 896 patients, but on one occasion due to very heavy casualties at the Front, she transported 2,400 sick and wounded. The submarine came up and interrupted the recovery and went alongside the Captain’s lifeboat. H.S. Following the conversion to a hospital ship, HS Warilda spent a few months stationed in the Mediterranean, before being put to work transporting patients across the English Channel. 5th/22nd soldiers that were transported on the HMHS Gloucester Castle: 2394 Pte Stephens, Built by Barclay Curle & Company, Glasgow in 1910, 7,606 tons; length 450 feet; speed 13 knots. Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMHS Anglia (ship, 1900). She was renamed Rosaura, replacing MY Roussalka (formerly the Brighton) which had been lost earlier that year. Sailing across the English Channel between France and England she remained in service until May 1919 when she was later renamed the MV Fishguard before being withdrawn and scrapped in 1933. The importance of a church family where you can build and mature in a life of service and faith. At dark on the morning of 26th February 1918, the Glenart Castle was leaving Newport in the Bristol Channel heading towards Brest, France, when despite being lit as a hospital ship she was hit by a torpedo. With the extremely high casualty rates at the front dozens of ships were therefore required and had to be requisitioned for use, many from passenger liner or cross-channel ferry companies. Edit source History Talk (0) Comments Share. In August 1914 she was taken over by the Ministry of Defence and commissioned as a Military Hospital, one of five in the first month of the war, with a capacity of 155 berths and 23 cots. Early in the First World War, the turbine steamer Jan Breydel evacuated Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium and the royal children on 28 August 1914. Launched in September 1913 and completed in January 1914, the Llandovery Castle initially sailed between London and East Africa, then London and West Africa. Hospital Ship Sunk in Bristol Channel a Century Ago. After the war her hulk was repurchased by Royal Mail Line in 1920 and rebuilt as a Cruise Liner, renamed the Arcadian where she operated Mediterranean and West Indies cruises until 1930, and was finally scrapped in 1933. During the battle of the Ijzer the vessel conducted missions along the Belgian and French coast transporting wounded and materials to and from the west corner of Flanders. E-mail: gcgstephens@gmail.com Also in 1934, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine cruised on Rosaura in the eastern Mediterranean. Although badly damaged she was eventually towed into port. It was to the ‘Gascon’ that Major-General Bridges, First Australian Chief of the General Staff, was brought after being wounded at Anzac on 15th May 1915 and where he sadly died of wounds three days later. The commander, Helmut Patzig could not be found and was never brought to trial. One of the more controversial events during the Great War was the sinking of the Canadian Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle by a German submarine, U-86, on 27th June, 1918. Hospital boats leave Malta for Blighty. HMHS Rewa (His Majesty's Hospital ship) was a steamship originally built for the British-India Steam Navigation Company for their mail and passenger service but requisitioned in August 1914 and fitted out for use as a British hospital ship during the First World War.On 4 January 1918, she was hit and sunk by a torpedo from the German U-boat U-55. His Majesty's Hospital Ship (HMHS) Asturias was one of thirteen allied hospital ships sunk between 1915 and 1918 as a result of enemy action. In this section we focus on some of the hospital ships used by the 5th/22nd Battalion, but this following list and description is a representative sub-section of the 77 hospital ships used by the British Navy in the First World War. Only a few survivors were reported and 162 people were killed including the Captain Bernard Burt, eight nurses, seven Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) medical officers and 47 medical orderlies. HMHS Glenart Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steamship originally built as Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line. She was raised and used by the occupying Germans through the war, and was finally scrapped in 1950, 5th/22nd soldiers that were transported on the HMHS St. Denis: (2328) Lieut Archer; 2360 Pte Ross; 2401 Pte Sheldon; 2469 Pte Edwards, Built by Caledonian Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee in 1906, 6,287 tons, length 418 feet, speed 12 knots. All passengers and crew were rescued. In September 1933, Dieppe was sold similarily to W E Guinness for conversion to a private yacht. 5th/22nd soldiers that were transported on the HMHS Glenart Castle: 2419 L-Cpl Skeggs, 7,999 tons, length 452 feet (138m), speed 13 knots. She served in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Dardanelles Campaign, returning wounded from Gallipoli and Salonika to Malta and the UK. "Britannic" hospital ship: 24 Nov. 1916: Brown: J. Fireman: No: Yes: No: No: Sunk by mine or torpedo on 21st November in the Zea Channel, in the Aegean Sea. Malta was an important medical centre for the care of wounded soldiers coming from first Gallipoli and then Salonika. The Karoola remained under the charter of the Commonwealth government until June 1919. It is unclear if they were ever recaptured. For the Canadians this was the most significant naval disaster in the war, and given the status of the ship and the medical crew on board was met with outrage. ... Sunk by collision in Firth of Forth. An Australian Infantry Battalion in the First World War. The Maheno and Marama were the poster ships of New Zealand's First World War effort. British Hospital Ships, Torpedoed or Mined in WW1. The biggest hospital ship sunk by either mine or torpedo in the First World War was HMHS Britannic, the sister of Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. Despite this the high command of the German Imperial Army viewed Allied Hospital Ships as violating the Hague Convention and as a result ordered their submarines to attack the ships as part of their unrestricted submarine warfare on Allied shipping. All the patients were evacuated by the attendant destroyers and other transports, but three unfortunately died during the transfer. Hospital Ship HMHS ‘Asturias’ sunk 20th – 21st March 1917 off Start Point in the English Channel Remembering today those who died as a result of the sinking of the ‘Asturias’ on the night of 20 th – 21 st March 1917, among them were two women: Between late 1916 and August 1918 she made over 180 trips from Le Havre to Southampton, carrying approximately 80,000 patients. Reference: History of the Great War; Medical Services, general History, Vol 1, by Major-General Sir W.G. Got down to sleep 5am – still rough. Built as the Galician in 1900 for the Union-Castle Line, she was renamed the Glenart Castle in 1914, before being requisitioned for use as a hospital ship between England and France during the First World War. By August 1917, there were only around 6,000 patients left, many of whom were convalescing.¹ There are 7,300 war graves on Malta. That night the HS Warilda had 801 persons on board with 471 invalids, including 439 cot cases. When the Germans arrived in Ostende on the 17th October 1914, the city had been evacuated and on that date the Ville de Liege was handed over to the English Ministry of War. Posted by Joseph Keefe. She was able to be beached near Bolt Head but her damage was so extensive that she was declared a total loss. Later in 1916 she was converted into a hospital ship. In 1930, Brighton was sold to W E Guinness, who converted her to a private yacht named Roussalka. The Cambria was built for and operated by the London and Northern Western Railway in 1897 in response to the competition launched the previous year by the City of Dublin Steam packet Company and their steamer that was capable of 24 knots, and therefore reducing the Holyhead to Dublin crossing time to under three hours. HMHS Gruntully Castle was returned to the Union-Castle Line in March 1919. The ship sank rapidly and twenty-two British soldiers, including two officers, and eighteen German other ranks died. Owned by the McIlwraith, McEeacharn’s Line Pty Ltd of Melbourne, the Karoola was initially used as a troop transport (HMAT A63), first sailing from Australia in June 1915 to Egypt. However worse was to befall her when on 3rd August 1918 when transporting wounded soldiers from Le Havre to Southampton she was torpedoed by the German submarine UC-49 despite the clear display of the Red Cross markings. Australia’s armed forces used six hospital ships during WWII. After the war, the British Admiralty sought the captains of U-Boats who sank hospital ships, in order to charge them with war crimes. The Guardian in late April that year reported Lord Lytton of the Admiralty talking of the seven hospital ships sunk by mine or torpedo. God's grace of all people in Christ. The biggest hospital ship sunk by either mine or torpedo in the First World War was Britannic, the sister of Olympic and the ill-fated Titanic. However her hulk was put to use as a floating ammunition store at Plymouth for the rest of the war. Three ships – the St.David, St.George and St.Patrick – were operated on this route from 1906 to be joined two years later by the St.Andrew. Until 1915 these steamers had carried passengers across the Tasman for the Union Steam Ship Company, but as casualties mounted at Gallipoli, the government pressed them into service as hospital ships. Page 1 The remaining 61 survivors were picked up by the Michel and interned at Yokohama, Japan. The Geneva Convention of 1864 and The Hague Convention of 1907 included provisions for the treatment of the wounded and the conduct of warfare at sea. The St. David was requisitioned in August 1914 and with a capacity of 157 berths and 23 cots used as a hospital ship during World War I, where she remained until decommissioned in January 1919. All patients and crew were saved by destroyers, tugs and trawlers and as the weather was unusually mild, and the sea practically a dead calm, the ship was towed into Portsmouth. ‘In two cases the enemy deliberately torpedoed ships which they knew were hospital ships, published the fact to the world and gloried in it.’†. Only four belonged to the Central Powers, the rest were sailing under the flags of Britain and her allies. Consequently, in support of the Salonika front, hospitals were set up in Greece. WORLD WAR 1 BRITISH WARSHIP LOSSES. The staff of the ‘Gascon’ was made up from the Indian Medical Service medical officers, a Royal Army Medical Corps matron, Australian nursing sisters and Royal Army Corps and Indian Medical Service orderlies. In addition to outrage, the authorities increasingly felt that the journey of hospital ships to and from Malta was too dangerous. All 14 Nursing Sisters on board lost their lives. The ship was returning to England after having brought Canadian casualties back to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Founded in 1846 Regie voor Maritiem Transport was the Belgian state-owned ferry service and operated ferries on the Ostend-Dover route under the name Oostende Lines. Copyright Following the Twenty-Second. 5th/22nd soldiers that were transported on the HMHS St. George: 2351 Pte McIntosh; 2353 Pte Price; 2414 L-Cpl Sharples. During the Second World War she was caught in Amsterdam in 1940 and scuttled by her crew. Ive no idea where to find the name of the ship, can anyone help please? The Asturias was operated by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. and went into service on the Southampton – Buenos Aires run. However with most of the U-boat crew now below deck in preparation for diving, orders were given to open fire on the lifeboats to destroy the evidence of the torpedoing. Of the total Allied losses, a third were sunk in just three months in Spring 1917 just after the German’s reintroduced ‘unrestricted submarine warfare’ in February 1917. It was picked up by the destroyer Lysander on the morning of 29th June, 36 hours after the attack. Over WW1, a number of British Hospital ships were sunk either by means of torpedoes or mines. The Glenart Castle was involved in two major incidents during the war. It was formed from the merger of the Union Line and Castle Shipping Line. She was converted to a hospital ship in 1914 for use throughout the First World War. Read Australian nurses first-hand accounts on the Gallipoli and the Anzacs website, Built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast in 1900, 6,807 tons; length 400 feet; speed 12.5 knots. 5th/22nd soldiers that were transported on the HMHS Dieppe: 2329 Pte Carmody; 2334 Pte Goodwin; 2348 Cpl McLeod; 2364 Pte Roberts; 2371 Pte Symons; 2407 Pte Stevens; 2413 Pte Sullivan; 2419 L-Cpl Skeggs; 2442 Pte Vance; 2473 Pte MacDonald. She had a capacity of 1,430 passengers, of which 432 were 1st class, 223 2nd class, and 775 3rd class. She was renamed Glenart Castle in 1914, but was requisitioned for use as a British hospital ship during the First World War. Reprisals for sunk Hospital Ships The German's were also prone to operate bogus hospital ships unashamedly, whilst accusing the British (in particular) of doing the same. He was released on the grounds that Britain had no right to hold a detainee during the Armistice. Sick again. Over the course of the war 136,000 Allied troops were treated and convalesced on the island. Edit. WW1 - NI Nurses lost when hospital ship was sunk Two people from Northern Ireland were drowned when a hospital ship returning to Le Havre, France, to pick up wounded servicemen in WW1 struck a German mine and sank in less than ten minutes. In February 1918 HS Warilda was struck by a torpedo which fortunately failed to explode, and the following month collided with another ship the SS Petit Gaudet off the Isle of Wight, the latter being seriously damaged. This work was undertaken in a joint venture with the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland known as the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours. 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