Western Australia


Vessel

Built

Service

Tonnage

Western Australia

1901

1917 - 19 Managed by Union-Castle as Ambulance Transport

1918 Collided with and sank HMS Hazard off Portland Bill

2937

Official Number

Ship Builder

Engine Builder

Engine Type

HP

Screws

161302

Stabilimento Tecnico

Trieste

Stabilimento Tecnico

Trieste

2 x Steam 3 Cyl

5000 IHP

2

Master

From

To

W B Dyer

5/1917


E G Hughes

10/1917


E J Holl

10/1917

11/1917

E A Sylvester

12/1917


E G Hughes

12/1917

1/1918

W Black

12/1917

1/1918

E W Day

1/1918


D Graham

6/1918

7/1918

G J Whitfield

7/1918


C B Imlah

10/1918


On 28 January 1918 Hazard was cut in two by the hospital ship SS Western Australia in thick fog in the eastern Solent about one-half mile (0.80 km) east of the Warner buoy, and sank with the loss of four crew

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