SS Warilda: troopship, hospital ship, ambulance transport, wreck In August 1915, the SS Warilda was requisitioned by the Commonwealth and fitted out as a transport ship. HMAT Warilda made two trips to Egypt and one to England, carrying more than 7,000 troops. Following the Warilda’s conversion to a hospital ship in July 1916, she spent a few months stationed in the Mediterranean, before being put to work transporting patients across the English Channel. Between late 1916 and August 1918 she made over 180 trips from Le Havre to Southampton, carrying approximately 80,000 patients. Read about how the SS Warilda’s last journey, only months before the end of the war awm.gov.au/blog/2014/08/01/ss-warilda-troopship-hospital-ship-ambulance-transport-wreck/
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