(WW2E) World War II - Return
E. Troopships and Transports
Which
Brought Two
Brigades of 6th Division,
AIF. from
Colombo to Australia
(Operation
Schooner), July 1942
Postcard in the
author's collection
Aronda (British
India) -
nmm photo am
twscs 8328gt 1941 Wallsend
(on the Clyde Apr. 1941)
1942
(Jul) carried Australian
No. N32907
6th Division troops Colombo-
Australia
1963 sold for scrapping
Postcard in the author's collection
Athlone Castle (Union Castle) -
sln
photo of postcard
twscm 25567gt 1936 Belfast
(peacetime livery)
1940 trooping
to Suez via
Digital Order No.
Capetown
a636294
1943
trooping USA-UK
nmm photos
1946
returned to commercial
uw P18790
service UK-South Africa
uw
No. P18809
1965 scrapped
am No P21503.
(1942-1945 at
Liverpool Landing
Stage)
Postcard in the
author's collection
City of Canterbury (Ellerman)
nmm
photo uw -
sctel 8421gt 1922 Wallsend
(1939-1945)
1940 troopship, took
troops
No. P22095
1941 took troops to Crete
nmm photo am
and later took part in
evacuation.
(probably before
1942 carried troops to Singapore
World
War II)
shortly before its fall.
nmm photo (1948 in
1944
made
several trips to
Capetown harbour)
Normandy beaches
No. P16279
1947 returned to
commercial
service
1953 scrapped
Photo
from the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
City of
Lille (Ellerman)
nmm photo aq
scm
6583gt 1928 Glasgow
(probably before
1957 sold to Taiwan China
World War II)
Union Lines
No. P16360
1963 scrapped
nmm photo (1950
Capetown harbour)
No. P16362
Photo from the author's collection
Clan Macdonald (Clan Line) -
nmm
photo
aq
twscm 8141gt 1939
Greenock
(1948 Capetown)
1960
transferred to Houston Line
No. P15685
1970 scapped
nmm photo uw
(off Capetown)
No. P15686
nmm photo aq
(1939-1945,
probably Liverpool)
Postcard in the author's collection
Devonshire (Bibby
Line) -
nmm 2 photos
twscm 11275gt 1939 Glasgow
(1939-1945)
1939-1962 troopship
aq No. P22155
1962 sold to British India S.N. Co.
uw No. P22158
converted to educational cruise ship
nmm photo aq
r/n Devonia
(1956 Capetown)
1967
scrapped
No. P14938
Photo from the "Old
Ship
Picture Galleries"
Dunedin Star (I) (Blue Star) -
slv photo uw
twscm 11168gt 1936
Birkenhead
(peace time livery)
1942 (Nov)
total loss after striking
Image No. b41427
submerged object off Southwest
Africa
Postcard in the
author's collection
Ekma (British India) -
twscs 5108gt 1911 Belfast
1914-1918 troopship
carrying
troops to and from India
1942 carried troops from
the
Australian 6th Division AIF
Colombo-Australia
1945 carrying Indian Army
units to and from India
1948 scrapped
Photo
from the
"Old Ship Picture Galleries"
Martand (Brocklebank)
nmm photo ut (1940-1945)
scs 8007gt 1939 Port Glasgow
No. P23383
1964 wrecked in River
Hooghlly
near Calcutta
Postcard in the
author's collection
Rajula (British India)
twscs 8478gt1926 Glasgow
1926
Madras-Penang-Singapore
service
1940 troopship Bombay-Suez
1941 (Dec 21) carried Indian
troops
Bombay-Singapore came away with
evacuees
1942 (Jul) carried Australian 6th
Division troops Colombo-Australia
1943 in Sicily
landings
1944 ambulance transport
for Burma
landings
1945
trooping Calcutta -Malaya
1945 resumed commercial
service
Madras -Singapore
1974 scrapped
Westernland
See (WW2D) above
Sources:
1. Lloyd's Register of British
and Foreign Shipping;
2. Duncan Haws "Merchant Fleets"
volumes:
3: Castle & Union Castle Lines
(Patrick Stephens, Cambridge 1979)
11: British India S.N. Co. (TCL Publications, U.K.
1987)
28: Holland America
Line (TCL Publications, U.K. 1995)
29: The Burma
Boats Henderson & Bibby (TCL
Publications, U.K. 1995)
3. John Clarkson & Roy Fenton's:
Ships in Focus Ellerman Lines (U.K. 1993)
Ships in Focus Anchor and Brocklebank Lines (U.K.
1994)
3. Peter Plowman's
"Across the Sea to War"
(Rosenberg,
Dural, N.S.W. 2003)
4. Website: The Ships List
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/bluestar.html
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/clan.html
5. Website of the Blue Star Line
http://www.bluiestarline.org/
Link to WW2F
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